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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article L22-10-33

The Articles of Association of companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market may not provide for higher quorums for meetings of their special meetings than those mentioned in th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article L22-10-31

The articles of association of companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market may not provide for higher quorums for meetings of their extraordinary general meeting than those in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter X: Tattooing products

Article L513-10-1

Tattooing products are defined as any colouring substance or preparation intended to create a mark on the superficial parts of the human body by breaking the skin, with the exception of products which…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article L22-10-32

The Articles of Association of companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market may not provide, on first call, for a higher quorum for meetings of their Ordinary General Meeting t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-51

In companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the General Meeting may provide that the capital increase that it decides or authorises pursuant to article L. 225-135 includes…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4a: Trade union audience measurement for companies with fewer than eleven employees

Article L2122-10-1

In order to measure the audience of trade union organisations among employees in companies with less than eleven employees, with the exception of those in the branches mentioned in article L. 2122-6,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article L5217-10-8

Prior to the vote on the first budgetary deliberation following its renewal, the metropolitan council shall draw up its budgetary and financial regulations.The metropolitan authority's budgetary and f…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE X: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

Article L72-101-7

Before the vote on the first budgetary deliberation following its renewal, the Assembly of Martinique establishes its budgetary and financial regulations.The local authority's budgetary and financial…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-50

When, as part of a capital increase, the securities referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 225-130 are admitted to trading on a regulated market or to the operations of a central depository,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-10-1

Continuing training is compulsory for industrial property attorneys registered on the list mentioned in the third paragraph of Article L. 422-1. The Compagnie nationale des conseils en propriété indus…

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