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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: The Professional Advisory Committee for Sport and Leisure Activities (Commission professionnelle consultative des métiers du sport et de l'animation)

Article A142-29

After receiving the opinion of the coordination body mentioned in article A. 142-28, the annual work programme is drawn up by agreement between the Director of Sport and the President of the Professio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments

Article A123-90

The rights to erasure, portability and opposition provided for respectively by articles 51, 55 and 56 of the law of 6 January 1978 referred to do not apply. The rights of access to data and limitation…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article A713-28

Automated processing of nominative information is created in the territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry, with a view to the study mentioned in Article R. 713-66, the purpose of whi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: The network of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Article A712-4

The allowance voted by the general meeting, for a period which may not exceed the term of office, is normally vested in the chairman.However, the executive committee may decide that all or part of thi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 205 A

For the assessment of corporation tax, no account shall be taken of a scheme or series of schemes which, having been put in place to obtain, as a principal objective or as one of the principal objecti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions relating to the digital procedure

Article A53-7

The conversion into digital format of any document intended to be transmitted to the judicial authority or placed within the digital procedural file, is carried out under the responsibility of the lat…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Sports federations

Article A131-6

With regard to the format used for publication : - the regulations must be viewable directly on screen without the need for additional software outside the browser; - they must be available for off-li…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article A131-3

When the unit of account used as a reference to value the capital or annuity guaranteed by the contract is an SCPI unit subject to supervision by the Commission des Opérations de Bourse, the value of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title II: Rules relating to non-marine damage insurance

Article A125-4

With regard to cover against the risk of natural catastrophes, the amount of the fee allocated to persons authorised to offer insurance may not exceed 8% of the amount of the premium or contribution,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies

Article A225-4

In respect of the due diligence it has carried out to conduct its assignment, the independent third-party body shall present:a) Proof of its accreditation;b) The work performed, the scope covered and,…

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