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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: The guarantee fund for victims of terrorism and other offences.

Article R422-10

Articles R. 422-1 to R. 422-9 are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, in the version resulting from Decree no. 2020-1452 of 27 November 2020.

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK VI: Company difficulties.

Article L690-1

The court seised of an application to open insolvency proceedings in respect of a debtor may open, as the case may be, main insolvency proceedings or territorial or secondary insolvency proceedings.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-2

The jurisdiction of the mixed commercial courts is determined by this Code and the specific laws.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-3

The mixed commercial courts are courts of first instance composed of the president of the judicial court, president, elected judges, subject to the provisions of Article L. 732-7, and a court clerk. J…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-5

Judgments of the mixed commercial courts are rendered, except where provisions provide for a single judge, by a panel comprising, in addition to the president, three judges elected or appointed under…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-7

To the list of candidates declared elected, the committee provided for by Article L. 723-13 appends a supplementary list containing the names, positions and addresses of the candidates who were not el…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-4

In districts where no mixed commercial court has been established, the judicial court hears matters assigned to the mixed commercial courts.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-1

Mixed commercial courts are set up in the overseas departments and regions.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-6

The provisions of Title II of Book VII relating to commercial courts are applicable to the mixed commercial court, with the exception of articles L. 721-1, L. 722-1, L. 722-3, and L. 722-11 to L. 722-…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-8

Article L. 721-8 is not applicable in the overseas regions and departments.

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