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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: People's savings plan

Article L221-22

Under certain conditions, the popular savings plan entitles the holder to tax benefits and, for plans opened after 22 September 1993, to a savings bonus. The operation of people's savings plans is sub…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts.

Article R232-22

When the filing of the accounting documents is accompanied by a declaration of confidentiality of the annual accounts pursuant to Article R. 123-111-1, the clerk of the commercial court shall complete…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of acquiring French nationality

Article 22-3

However, a French child under article 22-1 and who was not born in France has the option of repudiating this status during the six months preceding his majority and during the twelve months following…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R612-29-4

The request for an opinion referred to in IV of Article L. 612-23-1 must be sent to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution no later than two months and no earlier than six months before…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-29-5

When the investigating chamber or the trial court that pronounces a decision that the person is not criminally responsible does not decide to have the person hospitalised involuntarily because such ho…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Cigarette packaging units

Article R3512-22

I.-A cigarette packaging unit is made of cardboard or a flexible, parallelepiped-shaped material, the characteristics of which may be specified by order. II-The unit pack complies with the size requir…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-29-7

The decision ordering one or more of the measures provided for in Article 706-137 is made either in the judgment of the Investigating Chamber or the judgment of the Criminal Court, or by a separate or…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligation to declare.

Article R331-22

Organisers of a meeting subject to declaration must submit a declaration to the competent local prefect or the police prefect at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Le Bourget and Paris-Orly aerodromes no…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions concerning the sporting events referred to in paragraph 2 of article R. 331-19

Article A331-22

The disciplines mentioned in the second paragraph of article R. 331-19 of the French Sports Code are grouped into four categories corresponding to annexes III-22 to III-25 : - land motor vehicle event…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2511-22

To exercise the powers of the arrondissement council, the city council or the Paris council delegates, in the cases and under the conditions that it determines, to the arrondissement council the power…

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