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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Regulations

Article L611-1-3

For electronic money institutions, the Minister responsible for the economy shall lay down rules concerning in particular: 1° The amount of capital of electronic money institutions ; 2° The terms and…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article L111-7-3

The operators of online platforms referred to in Article L. 111-7 of this code and persons providing non-number-based interpersonal communications services within the meaning of 6° quater of Article L…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article L214-175-3

To avoid conflicts of interest between the depositary, the management company and, where applicable, the sponsor referred to in IV of Article L. 214-175-1, the securitisation undertaking and its unith…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L613-34-2

In carrying out the tasks referred to in 4° of II of Article L. 612-1, the college of supervisors and the college of resolution shall take into account the nature of the activities of the entity conce…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Administration and control

Article L1524-5-3

Local elected representatives who hold the position of member or chairman of the board of directors, managing director, deputy managing director, chairman and managing director, member of the manageme…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Guarantee of financial obligations

Article L211-38-1

No creditor of the beneficiary other than the provider of the financial collateral referred to in Article L. 211-38 and provided as initial margin pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5211-41-3

I. - Public establishments for intercommunal cooperation, at least one of which has its own tax status, may be authorised to merge under the following conditions.The proposed perimeter of the new publ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General rules.

Article L213-6-3

I. - Subject to the provisions of III, the contract for the issue of bonds whose nominal value on issue is at least equal to an amount set by decree of the Conseil d'Etat may provide that all or some…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-5-3

The regional health agencies may conclude a contract with a health centre and the doctors employed by this centre, on the basis of which these doctors may carry out all or part of their activity in an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-6-3

Shares whose holders, despite compliance with the formalities for convening general meetings, are unknown to the account keeper or have not been reached by the convening notices, for ten completed yea…

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