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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualified persons.

Article R221-1

…1 are holders of the professional guide-lecturer card issued under the conditions laid down by the regulations in sections 2 and 3 of this chapter. The museums and historic monuments referred to in a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Lapse of financial assistance

Article 121-7

…been paid because the beneficiary has failed to comply with an obligation laid down in this general regulation, the text establishing the assistance or, where applicable, the assistance agreement, in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents and European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-16-1

…onferred on a European patent under the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of 17 December 2012. The European patent with unitary effect takes effe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rescission of the sale on the ground of lesion.

Article 1682

If the purchaser prefers to keep the thing by providing the supplement regulated by the preceding article, he owes interest on the supplement, from the day of the demand for rescission. If he prefers…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 6: Shooting galleries for hunting weapons

Article A322-144

…ost projectiles and the fallout of pellets or fragments of targets, with reference to the technical regulations filed by the Fédération française de ball-trap with the Minister for the Interior and th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article L420-5

…transparent, fair and non-discriminatory, in accordance with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/573 of 6 June 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliamen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Admission to trading

Article L425-7

The operator of the organised trading system shall establish transparent rules concerning the criteria for determining which financial instruments may be traded on its system. When a financial instrum…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L633-7

For the purposes of exercising their respective functions, the competent authorities may exchange information relating to regulated entities in a financial conglomerate with the central banks of the M…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of hospitals and universities.

Article L6142-13

…biomedical and public health research committee is set up to be consulted on matters determined by regulation, in particular on the conditions under which the establishment organises its research pol…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-1-1

…rvisory boards or the bodies which take their place, in accordance with the procedures laid down by regulation taking into account the legal nature of the establishments.

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