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Showing 731740 of 34523 articles for Art. Loi 86-18 du 6 janvier 1986

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-18

…the mention of a manager's name in the Articles of Association may, in the event that the manager's duties are terminated for any reason whatsoever, be deleted by a decision of the shareholders. In th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Conditions for exercising departmental mandates

Article L3123-18

…directors or supervisory board of a company or who chairs a company may not receive, for all their duties, a total amount of remuneration and allowances exceeding one and a half times the amount of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Conditions for exercising regional mandates

Article L4135-18

A regional councillor who holds other electoral mandates or who sits in this capacity on the board of directors of a local public establishment, the national centre for territorial civil servants, the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-18

…t with the institution may be transferred to another investment services provider or to the issuer; 6. The transactions provided for in 1 to 6 of article L. 311-2 and in articles L. 511-2 and L. 511-3…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Statutory audit, other engagements and services performed by statutory auditors

Article R823-18

…the statutory auditors are attached to separate regional companies, the conciliation attempt is conducted by the president of the regional company to which the matter was first referred.The president…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Own funds

Article R351-18

The core capital referred to in Article L. 351-6 is made up of the following elements: 1° The excess of assets over prudential liabilities, valued in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of this chapter;…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The departments and units referred to in article 15-1

Article R15-18

…f the national police within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties and whose jurisdiction covers the entire national territory are as follows:1° La direction ce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Advertising.

Article L5422-18

…following constitutes a breach subject to financial penalties:1° Any advertising of a medicinal product which has not obtained the authorisation referred to in articles L. 5121-8 and L. 5121-9-1 or t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Rules specific to contracts with a particular purpose

Article D224-18

…st paragraph of Article L. 224-43 allows electronic communications operators, within the meaning of 6° of article L. 32 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, operating one or more val…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1843-4

…of the competent judicial court or commercial court, ruling in accordance with the accelerated procedure on the merits and without possible appeal.The expert thus appointed is required to apply, where…

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