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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-13

Where agricultural commodity derivatives which are based on the same underlying and which have the same characteristics are traded in significant volumes on trading platforms or where critical or sign…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article L326-13

After publication in the Journal officiel of the decision of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution resulting in the dissolution of an undertaking referred to in 1° and in the last parag…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-13

I. - Notwithstanding any legal provision or any contractual clause, no indivisibility, termination or resolution of a current contract may result from the sole fact of the opening of safeguard proceed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Quarantine, placement and isolation measures

Article L3131-13

I. - Individual measures involving quarantine and placement and maintenance in isolation are ordered by a reasoned individual decision of the representative of the State in the department on a proposa…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Acquisition of French nationality by declaration of nationality

Article 21-13-1

People aged at least sixty-five who have been lawfully and habitually resident in France for at least twenty-five years and who are the direct ascendants of a French national may claim French national…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the family court

Article 373-2-13

The provisions contained in the approved agreement or in the divorce agreement by mutual consent in the form of a private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary, as well as decisions re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-13

No reconciliation or interconnection, within the meaning of Article 33 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties, may be carried out between the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings, known as "Redex".

Article R53-21-13

The competent magistrate must inform the interested party of his decision by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, within three months of receiving the request. If there is no response wi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Disciplinary proceedings

Article R1442-22-13

…reading the report and hearing the representative of the Minister of Justice, the accused industrial tribunal member is invited to provide his explanations and defence of the facts of which he is acc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Decisions and appeals.

Article R464-24-13

The first president of the court of appeal or his delegate shall set the time limits within which the parties to the proceedings must communicate their written observations to each other, send them to…

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