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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Disciplinary powers

Article R612-36

…ondent at the address at which it received the statement of objections or, where applicable, at the last address it has notified to the Enforcement Committee secretariat by registered letter with ackn…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Conditions of practice

Article R743-181

…s moved.An annual general balance and a detailed balance of the files are drawn up and saved on the last working day of the calendar year.

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

Article R823-21-2

…reau of the High Council a request comprising: 1° Documents relating to the fees invoiced, over the last three financial years, for its task of certifying the annual and consolidated financial stateme…

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In force

Article Annexe 4-4

TABLE SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL DATA FOR THE LAST THREE FINANCIAL YEARS TO BE ATTACHED TO THE NOTIFICATION FILE FOR A MERGER OPERATIONName of entity: ... No SIREN (in the case of a French company): ...Cons…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deposits required from legal entities whose registered office is on French territory

Article A123-57

…ies Register, at the latest at the same time as their application for registration, pursuant to the last paragraph of Article R. 123-103 : 1° A copy of their articles of association; 2° A copy of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Lawyers' fees

Article A444-202

The discounts provided for in the last paragraph of article L. 444-2 are granted by lawyers on the proportional emoluments set out in this section within the limit of a maximum discount rate of 20% ap…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-44

…a is that entered in the administrative account of French Polynesia.If the revenue mentioned in the last sentence of the second paragraph of Article 52 of Organic Law no. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Composition and content of the plan

Article R4251-2

…sulting objectives. II.-The summary map illustrating the objectives of the plan provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 4251-1 is drawn up on a scale of 1:150,000. It may be broken down into…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article R4433-18

…15 and L. 4433-16 are deducted from the remaining 15% of the special assistance referred to in the last paragraph of Article R. 1614-42. This special assistance is supplemented by credits correspondi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Management of the information and monitoring system for exposure to ionising radiation

Article R4451-127

…ction 6 of this chapter; 2° Centralising, verifying and keeping, for at least fifty years after the last exposure, all the results of individual dosimetric monitoring of workers' exposure collected in…

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