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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisations

Article D6122-44-1

An army hospital may, with the authorisation of the Minister for Defence and the opinion of the Director General of the relevant regional health agency, participate in a shared medical imaging platfor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Obligations of the management company, the entity responsible for centralisation and the statutory auditor

Article L214-24-44

General purpose investment funds and their management companies shall act independently and solely in the interests of their unitholders or shareholders. They must offer sufficient guarantees with reg…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article L22-10-44

I.-In companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, shareholders who have been registered for at least two years and who together hold at least 5% of the voting rights may form…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-44-1

Failure by the lender to comply with any of the obligations set out in articles L. 313-30 to L. 313-32 is punishable by an administrative fine of up to €3,000 for a natural person and €15,000 for a le…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-44

When information has been transmitted by a service or unit referred to in Article 695-9-31 to the competent service of a Member State and the latter intends to communicate it to another State or to us…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Budgetary control

Article A211-44-1

For the purposes of examining the initial budget, amending budgets and the financial account, the budget controller shall receive the draft documents provided for in Article 175 of Decree no. 2012-124…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1a: Contracts Committee

Article L2315-44-2

For contracts where the value exceeds a threshold set by decree, the Social and Economic Committee, acting on a proposal from the Contracts Committee, determines the criteria used to select the Commit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1a: Contracts Committee

Article L2315-44-3

The members of the Contracts Committee are appointed by the Social and Economic Committee from among its full members. The rules of procedure of the social and economic committee set out the committee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1a: Contracts Committee

Article L2315-44-1

A contracts committee is created within the social and economic committee which exceeds, for at least two of the three criteria mentioned in II of article L. 2315-64, thresholds set by decree.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1a: Contracts Committee

Article L2315-44-4

The Contracts Committee draws up an annual activity report, which is appended to the report referred to in Article L. 2315-69.

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