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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Responsibilities

Article L4433-1

The Regional Council, through its deliberations, regulates the affairs of the region in the areas of competence assigned to it by law. It has competence to promote the economic, social, health, cultur…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IX: Parental authority

Article 1210-11

The decision refusing return issued by a foreign court and the accompanying documents transmitted to the court already seised by the parties of an application relating to the exercise of parental auth…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-21-6

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, when acting as the authority responsible for the supervision of a subsidiary of an undertaking which has its head office in another Member Sta…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and central counterparties

Article L613-72

Where the resolution authority of another Member State of the European Union implements one or more resolution measures pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/23, the resolution college shall provide it wit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-21-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall cooperate with the competent bodies for the supervision, management and regulation of the physical agricultural markets, designated under the conditions laid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Monetary signs

Article L721-6

I. - Cash payments denominated in CFP francs are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 CFP francs and are made according to the following rounding rules:1° Amounts ending in 1, 2, 6 and 7 are rounded d…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Risks covered.

Article A432-4

In the event of the occurrence of one of the political, catastrophic or transfer risks covered by the policy, the corresponding indemnity shall, insofar as the claim remains outstanding, be paid to th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Adapted companies

Article L5213-19-1

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions for the application of this sub-section, in particular: 1° The conditions for the performance, monitoring, renewal and control of the mult…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-22

To be approved, the agreements mentioned in article L. 5422-20 must have been negotiated and concluded at national and cross-industry level between representative employers' and employees' organisatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Cosmetic products.

Article L5131-8

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the procedures for applying this chapter, in particular : 1° The presentation and content of the declaration provided for in Article L. 5131-2 ; 2° The l…

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