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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Multi-year global financing plan

Article D6145-67

The revised multiannual global financing plan for the year is deemed to be approved if the Director General of the Regional Health Agency has not objected within thirty days of receipt. The Director G…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 C

…he financial year, individually or jointly by one or more open-ended real estate investment trusts (sociétés de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable) referred to in 3° nonies of Ar…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Reinsurance.

Article R322-84

Mutual reinsurance companies may be formed between mutual insurance companies or associations thereof or between undertakings affiliated by agreement to the same mutual insurance group company, the ob…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Reinsurance.

Article R322-82

Reinsured companies may only be members of the company to which they are reinsured, in the same capacity as other members, if they are expressly authorised to do so by the Articles of Association of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-6

When, during a financial year, a company has acquired a holding in a company with its registered office in the territory of the French Republic representing more than one twentieth, one tenth, one fif…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Preliminary provisions.

Article L210-5

As regards transactions of limited liability companies and joint stock companies which took place before the sixteenth day of the publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commercia…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-5-3

I. - A fixed fee is payable by persons subject to the supervision of the Autorité des marchés financiers, where provided for by law or regulation, in the following cases: 1° In the event of publicatio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Brokers in general

Article L131-5

Investment service providers may, concurrently with commodity brokers, negotiate and broker sales or purchases of metallic materials. They alone have the right to determine the price.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 111 ter

The conversion of a company that is not exempt from corporation tax into an open-ended investment company has the same tax consequences as the distribution of its liquidation surplus.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 211-107

The aid is granted in the form of an advance.The aid is the subject of an agreement signed with the production company.The agreement cannot be implemented until the investment has been approved.

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