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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custodian

Article L214-11-4

The Autorité des marchés financiers and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may obtain from the depositary, on simple request, all information obtained in the performance of its dutie…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-4

The person entitled to provide for the funeral of the deceased may obtain, on presentation of the funeral invoice, the debit from the deceased's payment accounts, within the limit of the credit balanc…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-16-4

A European patent with unitary effect and a French patent application or a French patent with the same filing date or the same priority date, covering the same invention and belonging to the same inve…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives.

Article L5312-4-1

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) imposes financial penalties on natural or legal persons…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L310-12-4

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall examine and evaluate the strategies, processes and reporting procedures established by the undertakings referred to in Article L. 310-3-1 in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Service regulations and pricing

Article L2224-12-4

I. - Every water bill includes an amount calculated on the basis of the volume actually consumed by the subscriber and may, in addition, include an amount calculated independently of this volume on th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L613-41

I. - When the preventive resolution plans are drawn up and each time they are updated, the resolution board shall assess the extent to which the persons concerned can either be wound up in accordance…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5141-14-4

I.-Any breach of the prohibitions set out in the first paragraph of article L. 5141-14-2 is punishable by an administrative fine of up to €15,000 for a natural person and up to €75,000 for a legal ent…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L3441-4-1

In the areas of competence of the overseas department, the president of the departmental council may, for the duration of his term of office, draw up a regional cooperation framework programme specify…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Regional cooperation

Article L7153-4-1

In the areas of competence of the territorial collectivity of French Guiana, the president of the assembly of French Guiana may, for the duration of his or her term of office, draw up a regional coope…

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