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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Disciplinary sanctions

Article L341-17

…king or financial canvassing committed by the persons mentioned in 1°, 3°, 5°, 7° and 8° of article L. 341-3 and in article L. 341-4 is penalised in accordance with the conditions laid down, depending…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-17

…icular : 1° The minimum guarantees for the insurance provided for in the third paragraph of Article L. 1121-10 ; 2° The conditions for the authorisation provided for in article L. 1121-13; 3° The cond…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Groupings of tourist municipalities and classified tourist resorts.

Article L134-3

The provisions of articles L. 133-11 and L. 133-12 are applicable to groupings of communes or to fractions of groupings of communes constituting a single, continuous territory. The provisions of artic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-26

The institutions referred to in Articles L. 511-22 and L. 511-23 are subject to supervision by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution under the conditions set out in Articles L. 613-32 t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Employee privileges.

Article L625-7

…anteed in the event of the opening of safeguard proceedings: 1° By the lien established by Articles L. 143-10, L. 143-11, L. 742-6 and L. 751-15 of the Labour Code, for the causes and amounts defined…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Waste

Article L4424-38

By way of derogation from the last paragraph of Article L. 541-15 of the Environment Code, the terms and procedures for drawing up, publishing, monitoring, evaluating and revising the regional waste p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Drawing up and auditing the accounts of the social and economic committee

Article L2315-68

…y elected members of the Social and Economic Committee appointed by it from among its elected members. The documents drawn up in this way are made available, where applicable, to the statutory auditor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation of credit institutions by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article L772-6

For application in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 1° The second paragraph of Article L. 511-10 is replaced by the following provisions: "Authorisation to operate as a credit institution shall be granted by…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Democratisation and transparency.

Article L5211-39-2

…of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status under the conditions provided for in article L. 5210-1-2, the creation of such an establishment by sharing under the conditions provided for in a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L1254-8

…e freelance employee corresponding to the service provided under the conditions set out in articles L. 1254-15 and L. 1254-21.

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