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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Redistribution and inter-professional fund for access to law and justice

Article R444-36

The legal entity mentioned in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 444-2 responsible for managing the interprofessional fund for access to law and justice is a public limited company whose capital is he…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operations.

Article R518-34

To ensure the regularity of payments requested as a result of proceedings for the distribution of the sale price of an immovable, an extract of the minutes drawn up by the judge shall be made by the c…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 4: Composite insurance undertakings

Article R352-35

I.-Without prejudice to Articles L. 352-1 and L. 352-5, insurance undertakings undertaking both the risks referred to in 1° and 2° of Article L. 310-1 calculate: a) A notional amount of the life Minim…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Provisions relating to the carrying on of certain co-insurance operations by insurance undertakings

Article R321-35

…rtakings whose head office is in France and which participate in the operations referred to in Article L. 321-12 as leading insurers shall provide the other insurers participating in these operations…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article R223-34

When the capital reduction has been decided under the conditions provided for in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 223-34, the shares are purchased within three months of expiry of the objection peri…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Unfair commercial practices between companies.

Article D442-3

For the application of III of article L. 442-4, the seat and jurisdiction of the judicial courts with jurisdiction in mainland France and the overseas departments are set in accordance with the table…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title IV: Other service providers

Article D547-3

The activity of providers of participative financing services referred to in article L. 547-4 relates exclusively to offers of shares in cooperative societies constituted in the form of a public limit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IVa: Observatory for analysis and support for social dialogue and negotiation

Article R2234-3

The representative employers' and employees' trade union organisations shall notify the head of the departmental unit, within two months of the referral by the latter, of the names of their respective…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Infringements of the rules concerning work by young people and by pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding

Article R4743-3

Employing a worker under the age of eighteen in prohibited work, in disregard of article L. 4153-8 and the decrees adopted for its application, is punishable by a fine of the fifth class. Repeated off…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose of the inspection and inspection officials

Article D6361-3

The State civil servants placed under the authority of the Minister responsible for vocational training mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 6361-5 undergo six months' practical training in…

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