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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts

Article L232-23

…of Article L. 433-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code under the conditions set out in the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers. However, the management report must be made avail…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis WA

…the retailer or consumer, of a quantity not exceeding that provided for in Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85 of 23 December 1985 laying down detailed implementing rules concerning t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-3

…as follows: 1° Those listed in items 1 (a) to 11 of Table 2 of the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 of 3 September 2018; 2° If expressly requested by the issuing company or i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L775-15

…ltimate paragraph of Article L. 721-24"; 2° In Articles L. 521-6 and L. 521-7: a) The references to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council are replaced by references to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting obligations applicable to all traders.

Article L123-15

…lance sheet and income statement items and the information to be included in the notes are set by a regulation of the Autorité des normes comptables.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The introduction of a period allowing employees to make an offer in the event of the sale of a business in companies that are not required to set up a works council.

Article L141-25

Information may be provided to employees by any means, specified by regulation, likely to make the date of its receipt by the employees certain. When information is provided by registered letter with…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seizure for counterfeiting

Article L332-2

Within a time limit fixed by regulation, the distrainee or the garnishee may request the president of the judicial court to order the release of the seizure or to confine its effects, or to authorise…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Income from receivables, deposits and guarantees

Article 124 B

The taxation regime for gains derived by natural persons from disposals made directly or through intermediaries, of debt securities negotiable on a regulated market pursuant to a specific legislative…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Action for subsidies

Article 342

Any child whose paternal filiation is not legally established may claim subsidies from the person who had relations with his mother during the legal period of conception.The action may be brought thro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 6-1

…has become final of the criminal court seised or in application of the remedies provided by law or regulation. The limitation period for public prosecution runs from the date of this decision.This ar…

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