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Showing 10111020 of 24512 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 20-10-2010 n° 09-13.635 FS-PBI

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Management and administration

Article L22-10-10

In companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the corporate governance report provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 225-37 in addition to the information ment…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-20-4

The minutes or reports of an investigation or any other document from criminal proceedings that is directly related to facts that may be submitted to the AMF Enforcement Committee for review may be di…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Merchant accounting

Article D123-205-1

The book mentioned in article L. 123-28 distinguishes cash payments from other payments and indicates the references of the supporting documents.The register referred to in the same article shall show…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and operation of the College of Experts

Article R1142-63-20

The members of the College are subject to the provisions of Article L. 1451-1.At each meeting, the members of the College shall state, if applicable, that they have a direct or indirect family, profes…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 6: Conditions for informing relatives

Article R1131-20-2

In the event of the diagnosis of a genetic anomaly which may be responsible for a serious condition justifying preventive measures or care, the doctor, except in cases where the person has asked to be…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Declared funds.

Article R214-203-6

When granting loans, a specialised professional fund :1° May borrow under the following cumulative conditions:a) The maximum leverage of the fund, expressed as a ratio between the fund's exposure and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 C bis

I. - The provisions of Articles 210 A and 210 B apply to transactions involving listed real estate investment companies, or their subsidiaries, and the companies mentioned in III bis of Article 208 C,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Merchant accounting

Article R123-208-3

The declaration provided for in Article L. 123-29 is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or delivered against receipt.If the application is incomplete, the regional chamber of co…

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

Article L692-10

I.-The jurisdiction of the court referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 13 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 shall be determined pursuant to 2° of Article L. 721-8 if the debtor carries…

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

Article R692-10

In application of Article L. 692-10, in the context of proceedings similar to receivership or judicial liquidation with continuance of business, the application for authorisation of redundancies is fi…

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