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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-12

The AIF or its management company:1° Requests and ensures that the board of directors of the company concerned or its equivalent makes available to the representatives of the employees, or failing tha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-13

For a period of twenty-four months following the acquisition of control of the company by the AIF and for as long as the AIF holds control during this period, the AIF or its management company : 1° Is…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: French regulated markets.

Article R*421-6-1

…stitute a decision to reject : 1° Applications for initial approval of the rules of a regulated market made pursuant to the third paragraph of Article L. 421-10; 2° Requests to amend the rules of a re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article R511-2-1-2

…ay only grant a loan as referred to in 3a of article L. 511-6 if the following four conditions are met: 1° On the closing date of each of the two financial years preceding the date on which the loan i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article R511-2-1-3

The statutory auditor shall be notified annually of the outstanding loan agreements granted pursuant to 3 bis of article L. 511-6. In a statement attached to the management report, the statutory audit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article D621-37-1-3

Suspension and, where applicable, immediate dismissal may not exceed the remainder of the term of office.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article D621-37-1-2

…8, shall be notified to the person concerned and to the company that he/she manages by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, by hand delivery against receipt or by bailiff's deed, and sh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Voter information, election campaign and voting operations

Article LO1112-14-1

…his sub-section are applicable to referendums organised by the communes of Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, under the conditions laid down in the following articles of the Electoral Code: 1° For…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Scope of application.

Article R5132-1

…e classified, by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, in lists I or II defined in article L. 5132-6, or as narcotic or psychotro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-1-1

…for which it applies; the total duration of concurrent exercise of the duties of juge des libertés et de la détention in several judicial courts may not exceed forty days during the judicial year. Th…

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