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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article R621-46

I. - An appeal to the Paris Court of Appeal shall be lodged by means of a written statement lodged in quadruplicate with the registry of the Paris Court of Appeal against a receipt. On pain of inadmis…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R1413-1

To carry out its missions, the National Public Health Agency : 1° Identifies, gathers, analyses, updates and disseminates information, data and knowledge about the state of health of populations and t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Directorate-General for Healthcare Provision.

Article D1421-2

The Directorate General for Healthcare Supply is involved in drawing up and implementing the healthcare policy defined in article L. 1411-1. It is responsible for developing, steering and evaluating h…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article A822-28-11

The standard of ethics "securing the interventions of the statutory auditor-application of the fundamental principles of behaviour", approved by the Minister of Justice, is shown below: Ethical standa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-79-2

…or more members appointed pursuant to Article L. 225-79 of this Code or I of Article 7 of Ordinance n° 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 relating to the governance of and transactions in the capital of compa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Status and missions

Article L1231-2

…l programme for the requalification of run-down old districts mentioned in the article 25 de la loi n° 2009-323 du 25 mars 2009 de mobilisation pour le logement et la lutte contre l'exclusion et dans…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous taxes

Article 231 quater

…cated in a zone franche urbaine-territoire entrepreneur defined in B du 3 de l'article 42 de la loi n° 95-115 du 4 février 1995 d'orientation pour l'aménagement et le développement du territoire, as w…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Book V: Service providers

Article L500-1

I. - No person may, directly or indirectly, on his own behalf or on behalf of another person, if he has been convicted within the last ten years of a final offence referred to in II: 1° Direct, manage…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TREATMENT OF OVER-INDebtedness

Article L714-1

…rticle 24 of Law No. 89-462 of 6 July 1989 aimed at improving rental relations and amending the loi n° 86-1290 du 23 décembre 1986, the commission imposes new deadlines and payment terms for this debt…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Article L5211-4-1

…idual basis, the benefits acquired in application of the third paragraph of l'article 111 de la loi n° 84-53 du 26 janvier 1984 portant dispositions statutaires relatives à la fonction publique territ…

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