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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 212-12

…212-42 ; 2° The project involves a director who has never made a feature-length film and a production company…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L532-22

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the procedures to be followed by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers in exercising the powers ve…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for amending the single copy and the certificate of transferability in the case of services entrusted to a subcontractor eligible for direct payment

Article R2393-29

When the contractor intends to entrust to subcontractors benefiting from direct payment, after notification of the contract, the performance of services for an amount greater than that indicated in th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-254

…limitée or a société d'exercice libéral à responsabilité limitée, or the person linked to him by a civil solidarity pact or his cohabiting partner, is entered in the National Register of Companies und…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-259

…hange in the legal status under which it was operated and, in the case of the purchase, auction or division of a business, the title and date of the legal gazette in which the insertion required by Ar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-252

…y at the time of its registration: 1° The company name, followed, where applicable, by its acronym; 2° The legal form, specifying the company's legal personality and its legal personality; 3. 2° Its l…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-261

…ard to the legal entity: a) The information provided for in 1°, 4° and 5° of article R. 123-252 and 2° of article R. 123-253; b) The legal form of the legal entity. b) The legal form of the company an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-256

…s one of the legal forms listed in Annex 1-3 to this book, only the information provided for in 1°, 2°, 7°, of Article R. 123-252 and article R. 123-253, as well as the place and number of registratio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-255

Where a commercial company whose registered office is abroad is not subject to the legislation of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, but ha…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations and filings concerning legal entities

Article R123-253

…f the partners who are indefinitely liable or jointly and severally liable for the company's debts; 2° Depending on the legal form, the name, surname, pseudonym, forenames, date and place of birth, na…

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