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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: The youth passbook.

Article R221-80

Failure by the holder to comply with the conditions set for opening the Livret Jeune will result in the closure of the account. In this case, the custodian institution or organisation will apply the p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: The youth passbook.

Article R221-76

The Livret Jeune may be opened in credit institutions approved for this purpose under the conditions set out in article R. 221-98.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: The youth passbook.

Article R221-81

When, pursuant to the second paragraph of article L. 221-26, the competent administrative authority intends to penalise an infringement of the rules laid down by this article by forfeiting the interes…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-5

I.-The application for approval, accompanied by the information and documents listed in Annex I to Decree No. 2016-1139 of 22 August 2016, shall be sent by the head of the laboratory to the public est…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-7

For control purposes, the approved laboratory shall send the public establishment mentioned in Article L. 3512-15 the results of the analyses provided for in that Article, in accordance with the techn…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-4

I.-The approved laboratory shall immediately inform the public establishment referred to in Article L. 3512-15 of any situation that may no longer enable it to comply with one or more conditions of ap…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-6

A laboratory with establishments on several separate geographical sites where different teams operate submits an application for approval for each of them.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-2

Approval to carry out the analyses mentioned in article L. 3512-15 is granted for a maximum period of five years by the public establishment mentioned in this article. It is renewable under the same c…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Reorganisation measures for companies whose registered office is located in a Member State of the European Union

Article R*323-11

When it decides to implement one of the reorganisation measures defined in Article L. 323-8, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution : 1° As a matter of urgency, inform the competent auth…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 99-5

For the purposes of executing the letter rogatory, the judicial police officer or, under the latter's supervision, the judicial police agent or investigation assistant may, with the express authorisat…

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