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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L432-4

The body referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 432-2 shall establish a separate accounting record for the transactions it carries out in the name and on behalf of the State pursuant to Arti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for exchanging and sharing information between professionals

Article R1110-2

Professionals likely to exchange or share information relating to the same person receiving care belong to the following two categories:1° The healthcare professionals mentioned in Part Four of this C…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Compulsory non-life insurance.

Article L242-1

Any natural or legal person who, acting in the capacity of owner, vendor or agent of the owner of the building, has building work carried out, must take out insurance before the start of the worksite,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-321

Any competition between midwives and doctors, pharmacists, medical auxiliaries or any other persons, even those not involved in medicine, is prohibited.Competition is understood to mean intelligence b…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative approval

Article R382-1

Articles R. 321-4, R. 321-4-1, R. 321-17, R. 321-18 and R. 321-22 apply to the authorisation of supplementary occupational pension funds.For the application of these provisions, the reference to artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: The National Register of Companies

Article D123-321

The amounts of the fees payable pursuant to Article L. 123-54 are set, for each formality, by the tables in Appendix 1-4 of this book. No fee is payable in the event of amendments made by the keeper o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Composition.

Article R6152-321

Hospital practitioners practising in the discipline corresponding to a section are eligible to vote. Practitioners in a position of availability are not eligible to vote. Voter status is determined: 1…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Branches of insurance undertakings whose head office is situated in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R329-1

The administrative authorisation provided for in Article L. 329-1 is issued to branches of undertakings referred to in 4° of Article L. 310-2, under the conditions set out in Articles R. 321-1, R. 321…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R322-2

Undertakings subject to State supervision under article L. 310-1 may have no other object than to carry out the operations mentioned in article R. 321-1, and those directly arising therefrom, to the e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Approval

Article L532-9

I. - Portfolio management companies are legal entities which manage one or more : 1° UCITS ; 2° FIA ; 3° UCITS governed by foreign law and approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the Europ…

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