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Showing 16111620 of 30335 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 8-7-2010 n° 09-12.491

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-84

The Supervisory Board may allocate exceptional remuneration for assignments or mandates entrusted to members of the Supervisory Board. In this case, such remuneration, charged to operating expenses, i…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for amending the single copy and the certificate of transferability in the case of services entrusted to a subcontractor eligible for direct payment

Article R2193-8

Any change during the performance of the contract in the allocation of services between the contractor and the subcontractors paid directly or between the subcontractors themselves requires the modifi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L356-8

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall cooperate closely with the supervisory authorities of insurance or reinsurance undertakings belonging to a group in other Member States of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Freedom of establishment or freedom to provide services

Article L519-8

Any intermediary referred to in Article L. 519-7 registered in France, acting under a mandate issued by a credit institution, a finance company or a customer under the conditions laid down by decree o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Declaration of the opening of the laboratory and changes to its operation

Article R6222-8

I.- Opposition to the opening of a medical biology laboratory or a new site or to the transfer of an existing site, pursuant to Article L. 6222-2, and opposition to the operations referred to in Artic…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1844-7

The company terminates: 1° By expiry of the period for which it was formed, unless extended in accordance with Article 1844-6 ; 2° By the realisation or extinction of its object;

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Deeds relating mainly to real estate and land

Article A444-87

Licitations (numbers 48 to 50 in table 5) give rise to the collection of:1° In the case of a licitation by mutual agreement:a) If indivision ceases, an emolument proportional to all the assets licence…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles.

Article R341-8

Unless it publishes them pursuant to article L. 341-3, the undertaking shall make the annual accounts, the management report, the auditors' report on the annual accounts and, where applicable, the con…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose and award conditions

Article 831-3

For each request, the amount invested, the amount of the advance granted or, where applicable, the total of these two amounts, may not exceed 30% of the additional energy costs incurred by the operato…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Rendering of accounts and termination of guardianship.

Article 810-9

Creditors who declare their claim after the account has been delivered may only claim against the remaining assets. In the event of insufficiency of these assets, they have recourse only against the l…

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