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Showing 39013910 of 47060 articles for Art. CJUE ord. 10-2-2022 aff. 191/21

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-1

In companies which are not obliged to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the French Labour Code, when the owner of a shareholding representing more than 50% of the shares in a lim…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Merger of mutual insurance companies

Article R322-106-3

One or more mutual insurance companies may, by means of a merger, transfer their assets and liabilities to an existing mutual insurance company or to a new mutual insurance company which they set up.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Information for consumers of packaged natural mineral water

Article R1322-44-10

The labelling of packaged natural mineral waters held with a view to sale, offered for sale, sold or distributed free of charge shall include, in addition to the particulars provided for in Article 9…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-10

Any person whose identity is entered in the file may ask the public prosecutor to rectify or order the deletion of information concerning him or her if the information is not accurate or if its retent…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE XI: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

Article D72-101-16

For the application of article D. 72-101-15 :1° The population to be taken into account is the total population, municipal and counted separately, as it results from the last known census on the date…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-102-3

I.-The companies mentioned in 1° to 3° of article L. 123-16-2 or those which exceed, in respect of the last completed financial year and on an annual basis, two of the three thresholds set, respective…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE XI: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

Article D72-101-3

The chapters of budgets voted by nature correspond:a) Investment section:- to each of the two-digit accounts in classes 1 and 2 open to the nomenclature by nature, with the exception of the accounts "…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Approvals

Article L321-10-1

In order to grant a reinsurance undertaking the administrative authorisation provided for in Article L. 321-1-1, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution des entreprises d'assurance shall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-102-4

I.-Any company which employs, at the close of two consecutive financial years, at least five thousand employees within itself and in its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is loca…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article R2333-104-1

I.-Local authorities or territorially competent public bodies may request that the bodies mentioned in articles L. 213-1 et L. 752-4 du code de la sécurité sociale or article L. 723-3 of the Rural and…

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