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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional organisation

Article R821-29

When practising in a company, each statutory auditor who is a partner, shareholder or member of the company's management, executive, administrative or supervisory bodies takes part in the meeting of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional organisation

Article R821-23

…ommissaires aux comptes instituée par l'article L. 821-6 groups together all the statutory auditors and all the audit firms registered on the list in accordance with Section 1 of Chapter II of this Ti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional organisation

Article R821-25

…proper practice of the profession by its members. The Compagnie nationale represents the profession and defends its moral and material interests. It may submit any proposal relating to the interests o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional organisation

Article R821-24

…ents the decisions taken by the Regional Council. The creation, abolition, territorial jurisdiction and operating and financing arrangements for the regional representative office are decided by the R…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional organisation

Article R821-28

The members of the regional company meet once a year at an assembly convened by the company chairman. Access to the meeting is forbidden to those who are not up to date with the payment of their profe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Criminal court

Article D45-2-2

…maining sentence to be served is less than or equal to one year, it shall order, in accordance with 1° and 2° of I of article 464-2, either that the sentence be adjusted in accordance with the procedu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Negotiating and formalising the commercial relationship

Article L441-3-1

I.-The written agreement concluded either between the supplier and the wholesaler, as defined in I of article L. 441-1-2, or between the wholesaler and the distributor or service provider sets out the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Liability

Article L481-1

…sion of an anti-competitive practice defined in articles L. 420-1, L. 420-2, L. 420-2-1, L. 420-2-2 and L. 420-5 and Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 5 : Groupings, agreements and commitments and commitments

Article L212-24

I.-The approval provided for in 1° and 2° of article L. 212-23 is issued by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée on the basis of the compliance of programming commitment…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Application for authorisation

Article A212-7-3-2

Applicants may provide any additional information to support their application.

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