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Showing 27312740 of 44912 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 23-3-2011 n° 10-30.495

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Preparation of the draft plan.

Article D626-10

Debts eligible for remission correspond to: 1° To penalties, late payment interest, default interest, tax or customs fines, surcharges, prosecution costs, regardless of the tax or miscellaneous State…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Securities giving access to the capital or giving entitlement to the allotment of debt securities

Article L228-101

If the company called upon to issue the equity securities is absorbed by another company or merges with one or more other companies to form a new company, or carries out a demerger, the holders of sec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Qualifying conditions

Article A742-10

No one may sit the oral admission tests unless they have been declared eligible by the jury.The oral admission tests are held in public session. They comprise:1° An oral test on a subject relating to…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-10

The Agency's Board of Directors comprises twenty-three members appointed by order of the Minister for the Economy and Finance and the Minister for Tourism:1° Seven representatives of holiday voucher b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1048 ter

The tax mentioned in article 680 :1° Deeds granting authorisation for temporary occupation of the public domain constituting a right in rem in immovable property issued either by the State or one of i…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Intervention by the fund in the event of the withdrawal of an insurance undertaking's administrative authorisation

Article L421-10

I.-The contribution made by insurance undertakings to finance the intervention of the guarantee fund in the event of the withdrawal of authorisation of an insurance undertaking covering, on the territ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article LO6471-10

As from the referral to the territorial audit chamber and until the end of the procedure provided for in article LO 6471-7, the Territorial Council may not vote on budgetary matters, except for the de…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Applying for leave as part of a career transition project

Article R6323-10

I.-The employee submits a request for leave as part of a professional transition project to his employer in writing, no later than: 1° One hundred and twenty days before the start of the training cour…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Transitional provisions.

Article L441-10

I. - Agreements of any kind in existence on 1 July 2017 and carrying out or providing for the transactions referred to in Article L. 441-1 must be brought into compliance with the provisions of this c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 5: Accounting provisions

Article L214-109

At the end of each financial year, the management company draws up an inventory of the various assets and liabilities existing at that date. It also draws up the annual accounts and prepares a written…

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