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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other provisions

Article D632-3-2

At the request of a competent authority of a trading venue to which an investment services provider other than an asset management company provides direct electronic access, the AMF shall communicate,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-2

…r la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée in respect of equipment subsidies paid to the public establishment "Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe" for the capital expenditure that the latter is making to build t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: Equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article L221-32-2

…intermediate size may also be used to subscribe for :a) Shares in open-ended investment companies (sociétés d'investissement à capital variable), more than 75% of whose assets are made up of shares i…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema exhibition account

Article 232-8

The sums entered in the automatic cinema exhibition account are invested to finance works and investments contributing to:1° The modernisation of existing cinematographic establishments, in particular…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 163 bis F

…le 3 of Law no. 94-1135 of 27 December 1994 relating to the conditions for the privatisation of the Société nationale d'exploitation industrielle des tabacs et allumettes are exempt from income tax.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L231-1

It may be stipulated in the articles of companies which do not have the form of a société anonyme and in any cooperative company that the registered capital may be increased by successive payments by…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Penal provisions.

Article L244-5

…directors, general managers, members of the management board or members of the supervisory board of sociétés anonymes are applicable to the chairman, directors, general managers, members of the manage…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Crédit maritime mutuel.

Article R512-42

…nown as the "Fonds central de solidarité du crédit maritime mutuel", is created in the books of the Société centrale de crédit maritime mutuel to guarantee the solvency and liquidity of the institutio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to professional non-trading companies

Article R743-82

…who fulfil the conditions required to practise the profession of commercial court clerk may form a société civile professionnelle between themselves, which may be appointed commercial court clerk: 1°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Shared functions

Article R6132-19-5

I.-At the request of all the directors of the hospitals belonging to the consortium, in consultation with the management boards and after receiving the opinion of the consortium's medical commission,…

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