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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article L420-5

The operator of a trading venue shall ensure that its rules on collocation services are transparent, fair and non-discriminatory, in accordance with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-20

The consolidated financial statements comprise the consolidated balance sheet and income statement and notes to the financial statements: they form an indivisible whole.To this end, the companies incl…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer and loss of trademark rights

Article R714-4-1

Amendments to the regulations determining the conditions to which the use of the mark is subject shall be entered at the request of the holder of the mark on the day of the application for registratio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: The borough mayor

Article L2511-32

The acts of the borough mayor acting as an authority of the State are subject to the same rules as the acts of the mayor acting in the same capacity. The acts of the borough mayor acting on behalf of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5461-2-1

Failure by the importer or distributor of a device to immediately inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, pursuant to Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/745…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5462-2-1

Failure by the importer or distributor of a device to immediately inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, pursuant to Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/746…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Representation of the professions to the public authorities.

Article R814-15

The National Council shall draw up its own rules of procedure, which shall govern the operation of the National Council and its Executive Committee and lay down the prerogatives of the Council's bodie…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General rules.

Article R5211-1

Where different rules govern the administrative control of communes according to the size of their population, the population of all the communes forming the public establishment of inter-communal coo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation.

Article R4532-92

On the initiative of its chairman, the inter-company college is convened, in due course, for the purpose of adopting the college's rules.The Chairman shall send the rules and the minutes of the meetin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Libraries

Article L1421-5

The rules relating to departmental libraries are laid down by the provisions of Titles I and III of Book III of the Heritage Code.

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