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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions applicable to categories of securities being phased out

Article L212-6-4

Where 2° of article L. 212-6-3 is applied, the valuation of the securities is carried out using the same objective methods as for asset disposals and takes into account, with an appropriate weighting…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Calculation and payment procedures.

Article L5422-4

The claim for payment of the insurance allowance is submitted to Pôle emploi by the unemployed worker within two years of the date of registration as a jobseeker.The notification of the decision relat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal regime for declarations of activity

Article L6351-4

The registration of the declaration of activity is cancelled by decision of the administrative authority when it is established, following an inspection carried out pursuant to 1° of Article L. 6361-2…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions specific to certain institutions and organisations.

Article L6147-4

The public health establishment of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is subject to the provisions of this code, with the proviso that its supervisory board includes, in addition to the members mentioned in 1°,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Acquisitions of participating interests

Article L465-4

The penalties applicable to breaches of the obligation to disclose significant shareholdings are set out in 1° and 2° of I and III of article L. 247-1 and in article L. 247-2 of the French Commercial…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Offering of banking transactions to individuals resident in France by credit institutions having their registered office in a state that is on the list of states receiving official development assistance and that is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article L318-4

Each year, the credit institutions referred to in Article L. 318-1 provide the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution with a report on the transactions carried out under this chapter, in acc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Training contract between a natural person and a training organisation.

Article L6353-4

The contract concluded between the natural person undertaking the training and the training provider must specify, on pain of nullity : 1° The nature, duration, programme and purpose of the training c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L7211-4

For the application of this code in Martinique:1° The reference to the department, the overseas department, the region or the overseas region is replaced by the reference to the territorial collectivi…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Designation of the country of return

Article L721-4

…trative authority may designate as the country of return:1° The country of which the foreign national is a national, unless the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons or th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Personal bankruptcy and other prohibition measures.

Article L653-4

The court may declare the personal bankruptcy of any director, de jure or de facto, of a legal person, against whom one of the following facts has been identified: 1° Having disposed of the assets of…

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