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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article D225-104-2

The employee headcount threshold provided for in 4° of Article L. 225-115 is assessed on the closing date of the last financial year.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions for publication and dissemination of job offers

Article R5332-1

The administrative authority referred to in Article L. 5332-4 is the Regional Director for Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Reductions in sentences under articles 721-3 and 721-4

Article D117

The exceptional reduction in sentence provided for by article 721-3 as well as that provided for by article 721-4 may be granted in one or more instalments without exceeding one third of the sentence…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consolidated and combined financial statements

Article R345-1-4

When the statutory auditor of an undertaking referred to in Articles L. 310-1 or L. 310-1-1, of a société de groupe d'assurance referred to in Article L. 322-1-2, of a mutuelle or union governed by Bo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Branches of insurance undertakings whose head office is situated in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L329-1

The undertakings referred to in 4° of I of Article L. 310-2 may not carry on the operations referred to in Article L. 310-1 in the territory of the French Republic unless they have obtained administra…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Resolution measures

Article R613-62

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 613-50-8, when the activities of the bridge institution are terminated under the conditions provided for in III of Article L. 613-53-4, any liquidatio…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L311-4-1

The amount of the remuneration provided for in Article L. 311-3 specific to each medium is brought to the attention of the purchaser when the recording media mentioned in Article L. 311-4 are put up f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Control.

Article L1263-4-1

The Labour Inspectorate control officer or the equivalent control officer mentioned in the last paragraph of Article L. 8112-1 who has not received, by the end of the period of forty-eight hours from…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Opposition

Article R613-44-1

…on which it is based, the facts relied upon and the documents produced in support of these grounds; 4° Proof of payment of the fee due; > 5° Where applicable, the name of the representative and, unles…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5 : Procedures for dealing with situations of non-compliance with the quality of natural mineral water

Article R1322-44-6

…eeded and to inform the Prefect without delay of the findings and conclusions of the investigation; 4° Inform the Director General of the Agency of the measures taken to eliminate the cause of the qua…

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