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Showing 901910 of 5416 articles for Art. Société Lupa

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6145-74

…for health and the budget. II - Subsidiaries of university hospital centres take the form of either sociétés anonymes with a management board and supervisory board as defined in articles L. 225-57 to…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article L322-27-1

The central body of the agricultural mutual insurance and reinsurance companies or funds is a société anonyme d'assurance agréée pursuant to Article L. 321-1 or a société anonyme de réassurance agréée…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IX: The European Company

Article L229-10

…two financial years approved. The company draws up a draft for the conversion of the company into a société anonyme. This draft is filed with the registry of the court of the company's registered offi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Invalidity

Article L235-1

…an express provision of this Book or of the laws governing the nullity of contracts. In the case of sociétés à responsabilité limitée and sociétés par actions, the nullity of the company may not resul…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Health centres.

Article L6323-1-3

…tablishments, whether non-profit or for-profit. A health centre may also be set up and managed by a société coopérative d'intérêt collectif governed by Title II ter of law no. 47-1775 of 10 September…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216 bis

Interest and income received after 31 December 1955 on A shares in Société nationale des chemins de fer français which remain blocked after that date in the assets of the former concessionary companie…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Incompatibilities.

Article L811-10

…commercial nature, whether exercised directly or through an intermediary ; 2° Being a partner in a société en nom collectif, a general partner in a société en commandite simple or par actions, the ma…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Life insurance with variable capital on real estate.

Article L160-12

…0-10 shall decide whether to adopt the rules governing open-ended real estate investment companies (sociétés de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable) under the conditions laid down…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Filing of amending deeds.

Article R123-109

For sociétés anonymes with a board of directors, the extract from the minutes containing the decision of the board of directors relating to the choice of one of the two methods of exercising general m…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Economic and social measures

Article L2542-30

Where, in a société anonyme created prior to 7 December 1969, a municipality is a member or chairman of the board of directors, a member of the management board or a member or chairman of the supervis…

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