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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-32

The Registrar shall send to the National Institute of Industrial Property, within fifteen days of the entry or filing of the deeds and documents in the Register of Commerce and Companies, the fees col…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-33

Entries and deletions made ex officio in the Trade and Companies Register and entries reported by the Registrar shall be transmitted to the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, in accordanc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-37

The registrar's maintenance of the register includes keeping and updating:1° The alphabetical file of natural and legal persons registered within the jurisdiction of the court;2° The collection of ind…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-38

The alphabetical file indicates:1° For natural persons, their birth name, customary name, forenames, date and place of birth, the activity carried out and the address of the establishment or, failing…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-30

…ethod of transmission, the page indexes of the information relating to the beneficial owners in the case of the declaration provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 561-46 of the Monetary and…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-31

…y are accompanied by their MD5 fingerprints as well as the associated complete and up-to-date technical documentation. These files include all the information entered, in particular the company name,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-39

Each individual file includes an original, in paper or electronic form, of the entries made either on declaration or ex officio, as well as the documents in paper or electronic form held at the regist…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Expenses.

Article D2573-32

I. - The articles R. 2321-1 to R. 2321-3 and R. 2321-7 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II, III and IV. II. - For the application of Articl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Composition and content of the plan

Article R4251-3

The objectives for the economical management of space and the fight against the artificialization of land are defined and are broken down territorially by considering: 1° The issues involved in preser…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: State services transferred and made available to the Corsican regional authority

Article R4422-31

Sont transférés à la collectivité de Corse, en application du deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 4422-43 :1° The departments or parts of departments responsible, within the regional directorate of equipm…

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