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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 530-3

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall set the amount of fixed fines and indemnities, reduced fixed fines and increased fixed fines as well as the costs of setting up the case and shall specify the term…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L644-5

…st within six months of the decision ordering or deciding on the application of the simplified procedure, with the debtor heard or duly summoned. This period is extended to one year when the number of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L633-5

…nt authority. These agreements may entrust additional tasks to the coordinator and specify the procedures to be followed in the context of supplementary supervision. They may also specify the arrangem…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L220-5

Any person subject to compulsory insurance who has been unable to obtain a policy for the risks referred to in article L. 220-1 from at least three of the undertakings authorised in the class correspo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L571-5

The provisions of articles L. 820-5, L. 820-6 and L. 820-7 of the French Commercial Code apply to the statutory auditors of credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 530-1

In view of the request made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 529-2, of the protest lodged pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 529-5, of that provided for by III of Article 529-6 or th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transferable debt securities.

Article L228-58

…the legal representative of the company, by the representatives of the group or by the liquidators during the liquidation period.One or more bondholders, representing at least one thirtieth of the se…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article L612-5

The invention must be set out in the patent application in a sufficiently clear and complete manner to enable a person skilled in the art to carry it out. Where an invention involving biological mater…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Military personnel serving in the French army

Article L4061-5

The Minister of Defence is competent to recognise a qualification different from the one initially recognised for practitioners in the armed forces covered by the provisions of article L. 4138-2 of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING PROVISIONS

Article L3661-5

The budget of the metropolitan authority is voted either by nature or by function. If the budget is voted by type, it also includes a cross-referenced presentation by function; if it is voted by funct…

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