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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information, commercial practices, contracts and credit

Article L511-7

…fficers are empowered to investigate and record infringements or breaches of the provisions: 1° Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passenge…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: External control

Article L518-15-2

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall ensure, under the conditions set out in Articles L. 612-17, L. 612-23 to L. 612-27 and L. 612-44, that the banking and financial activities c…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-3

In the absence of a collective agreement or in the event of an agreement not covering all of the points mentioned in 1° to 5° of article L. 1233-24-2, the administrative authority shall approve the do…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Withholding

Article L521-14

In addition to the cases provided for by the Community regulations in force, the customs administration may, at the written request of the owner of a registered design or the beneficiary of an exclusi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Expenditure

Article L72-103-2

Sont obligatoires pour la collectivité territoriale:1° Les dépenses relatives au fonctionnement des organes délibérants et à l'entretien de l'hôtel de la collectivité;2° Les dépenses relatives aux ind…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Intervention by the fund in the event of the withdrawal of an insurance undertaking's administrative authorisation

Article L421-9-2

In the event of a portfolio transfer ordered pursuant to 14° of I of article L. 612-33 of the French Monetary and Financial Code, any part of the rights of policyholders, contract holders, members and…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2651-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title, the following provisions shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands to public contracts concluded by the State or its public establishments, su…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2661-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title, the following provisions shall apply in French Polynesia to public contracts concluded by the State or its public establishments, subject to the…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2671-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title, the following provisions shall apply in New Caledonia to public contracts concluded by the State or its public establishments, subject to the pow…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2681-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title, the following provisions shall apply in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories to public contracts concluded by the State or its public es…

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