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Showing 33913400 of 65950 articles for Art. CJUE 30-9-2021 aff. 299/20 and ord. 10-2-2022 aff. 191/21

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Failure to open secondary insolvency proceedings on the national territory

Article R692-9

…insolvency practitioner of the main insolvency proceedings, the petitioning creditor or creditors, and having obtained the opinion of the public prosecutor.The judgment is notified to the debtor, the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Aid for property investment and leasing granted to businesses

Article R1511-10

…es in the regional aid areas delimited by Decree no. 2022-968 of 30 June 2022 on regional aid areas and investment aid areas for small and medium-sized enterprises for the period 2022-2027, local auth…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article R22-10-10

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Increase in certain selective aids

Article 919-44

I. - The amount of selective aid granted in application of articles 223-1, 223-9 and 223-15 for the distribution of cinematographic works other than those mentioned in article 222-7 and article 222-8,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Agricultural organisations

Article 1028

I. - Real estate transactions resulting from the application of the provisions of Article 15, as amended, of Act no. 60-808 du 5 août 1960 d'orientation agricole (1), carried out by sociétés d'aménage…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to confiscation orders issued by French courts

Article 713-9

…the order has been issued are located, the public prosecutor shall transmit the confiscation order and the certificate to the competent authority of the State in which the person concerned has his ha…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Setting tariffs

Article A444-10

…ovisions of sub-sections 1 to 4 of this section.These emoluments are increased by 30% in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Mayotte, by 29% in the departments of Guadeloupe an…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and terms of allocation

Article 919-113

…by decisions of 16 March 2021 C(2021) 1902, 9 December 2020 C(2020) 9072, 20 May 2020 C(2020) 3460 and 25 May 2020 C(2020) 3532, on the basis of scheme no. SA.56985 for business support authorised by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil protection reserves.

Article L3142-102

The provisions applicable to employees serving in the civil security reserve are set out in articles L. 724-7 to L. 724-10 of the French Internal Security Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the Order.

Article L4232-9

…six years. This central council comprises : 1° A professor or senior lecturer in pharmacy training and research units, a pharmacist in active service, appointed by the Minister for Health on the reco…

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