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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Information on the payer and beneficiary accompanying transfers of funds

Article L722-18

Failure to comply with the obligations set out in Articles L. 722-6 to L. 722-8 is punishable by a fine equal to 50% of the sum involved in the offence or attempted offence. If the offence referred to…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating rules

Article L327-10

…s, the Audit Committee may be assisted by rapporteurs appointed from among the members of the Council of State and the body of advisors to administrative courts and administrative courts of appeal, ma…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Assessment of the borrower's solvency

Article L312-17

Where credit transactions are concluded at the point of sale or by means of a distance communication technique, an information sheet separate from the sheet referred to in Article L. 312-12 is provide…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Execution time for payment transactions and value dates

Article L133-13

…amount of the payment transaction is credited to the payee's payment service provider's account no later than the end of the first business day following receipt of the payment order as defined in ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Holders

Article L224-17

Where a collective company pension savings plan has been set up, all employees of the company are entitled to benefit from its provisions. However, a seniority condition may be required. This may not…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-13

Any violation observed within the Etablissement français du sang, and caused by it, of the legislative or regulatory requirements applicable to it, as well as the elements mentioned in article L. 1222…

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

Article L612-10

Before the end of the period provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 612-9, the bans imposed in the first paragraph of the said article may be extended, at the request of the Minister respo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Compensation for contaminated victims.

Article L3122-1

Victims of losses resulting from contamination by the human immunodeficiency virus caused by a transfusion of blood products or an injection of blood-derived products carried out on the territory of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Departmental councils.

Article L4123-1

The Conseil départemental de l'ordre exercises, within the framework of the département and under the supervision of the Conseil national, the general powers of the ordre, listed in article L. 4121-2.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator

Article L4351-1

Any person who is not a doctor and who performs professional medical electroradiology procedures on medical prescription and under the responsibility of a doctor is considered to be practising the pro…

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