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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial conglomerates

Article L517-9

I. - Mixed financial holding companies whose coordinator is the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution are subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article L. 511-13 and to the p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Transfers of charges and income between the Rhône department and the Lyon metropolitan authority

Article L3663-9

I. - For the application of article L. 2334-4 à communes de la métropole de Lyon : 1° The intercommunal product of the business value added levy taken into account corresponds to the product collected…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Principles.

Article L6241-1

I.-The purpose of the apprenticeship tax is to promote equal access to apprenticeships and to contribute to the financing of apprenticeship development initiatives under the conditions set out in arti…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to local authorities governed by Article 73 of the Constitution and to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L831-2

For the application of this book in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 1° In Article L. 812-2, the words: "Articles 78-1 to 78-2-2 of the Code of Cri…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title III: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L832-2

For the application of this book in Saint-Barthélemy: 1° In Article L. 812-2, the words: "Articles 78-1 to 78-2-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure" are replaced by the words: "Article 78-1, Article 7…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter III: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SAINT-MARTIN

Article L833-2

For the application of this book in Saint-Martin: 1° In article L. 812-2, the words: "Articles 78-1 to 78-2-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure" are replaced by the words: "Article 78-1, Article 78-2…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Capital increases

Article L22-10-52

As an exception to the second paragraph of article L. 225-136, for companies whose equity securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market and insofar as the equity securities to be issued imm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Publicity and entry into force

Article L3131-2

I.-The following are forwarded to the State representative in the department, under the conditions set out in II:1° Deliberations of the departmental council or decisions taken by delegation of the de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Chapter IIa: Mediation

Article L1112-24

Without prejudice to existing mediation mechanisms, the municipalities, departments, regions and public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may, by deliberation of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Book V: Service providers

Article L500-1

I. - No person may, directly or indirectly, on his own behalf or on behalf of another person, if he has been convicted within the last ten years of a final offence referred to in II: 1° Direct, manage…

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