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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article R420-5

For the application of the second sentence of Article L. 420-7, the Paris Court of Appeal has jurisdiction.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5141-5-1

By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018, the veterinary medicinal products referred to in paragraph 6 of the same Article sha…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: General principles

Article A512-5

The amount of the financial guarantee referred to in article R. 512-15 must be at least equal to the sum of 115,000 euros and may not be less than twice the average monthly amount of funds collected b…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-5-2

At the patient's request to avoid all suffering and not to be subjected to unreasonable obstinacy, deep and continuous sedation causing altered consciousness maintained until death, combined with anal…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Manufacture of and trade in beverages

Article R3322-5

For each festival or fair, the authorisation is issued to the person responsible for organising it by the prefect of the département or, in Paris, by the police prefect or, in the département of Bouch…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Provisions relating to the resolution of transnational groups

Article L613-59-1

I. - Where a credit institution, an investment firm or a parent undertaking established in a non-EU Member State has in France and in at least one other EU Member State a subsidiary or branch consider…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LEGAL REGIME FOR ACTS TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE COLLECTIVITY AND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE COLLECTIVITY

Article D6242-5

The transmission to the State representative of the public contracts of the local authority and its public establishments other than public health establishments includes the following documents: 1° A…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article L613-31-5

By way of derogation from the provisions of Article L. 613-31-3, the effects of a reorganisation measure or winding-up proceedings defined in Article L. 613-31-2 on the contracts, rights and authoriti…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Administrative penalty procedure and administrative settlement

Article R522-5

Posting takes place in the places and for the duration indicated by the decision; it may not exceed two months.If the posters affixed are removed, concealed or defaced, they are posted again.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 572

Where a person has used in part the material which belonged to him and in part that which did not belong to him to form a thing of a new kind, without either of the two materials being entirely destro…

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