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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-12

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall not impose more restrictive limits than those provided for in Article L. 420-11, unless, exceptionally, such limits are objectively justified and proportionat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-12

For the purposes of this Title, a care team is a group of professionals who participate directly on behalf of the same patient in the performance of a diagnostic or therapeutic act, the compensation o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation

Article L612-12

I. - Without prejudice to Article L. 612-8-1, the full Supervisory Board shall determine the organisational and operational principles, the budget and the internal rules of procedure of the AMF. It sh…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-12

Where the assignment relates to assets subject to a special lien, pledge, charge or mortgage, the court shall allocate to each of these assets, for the purpose of apportioning the price and exercising…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of the market undertaking

Article L421-12

Without prejudice to Article 53 of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central sec…

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

Article L4311-12

By way of derogation from the provisions of article L. 4311-2, the practice of the profession of nurse is permitted either as a multi-purpose auxiliary, or for one or more establishments or for a spec…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Terms of office of board or committee members.

Article L5211-12

The maximum allowances voted by the council or committee of a syndicat de communes, communauté de communes, communauté urbaine, communauté d'agglomération and métropole for the actual performance of t…

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

Article L3131-12

I.- Measures aimed at quarantining people likely to be affected may only apply to people who, having stayed in an area where the infection is circulating during the previous month, enter French territ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Public territorial establishments

Article L5219-12

I. - The services of the Greater Paris metropolis contributing to the exercise of competences subject to the definition of a metropolitan interest and not declared to be of metropolitan interest may b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Discipline.

Article L811-12

Disciplinary proceedings are initiated by the Minister of Justice, the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal within whose jurisdiction the acts were committed, the public prosecutor appointed for i…

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