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Showing 781790 of 42414 articles for Art. s. L. 641-13 & L. 643-8

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13-7

…s marchés financiers may suspend the marketing or sale of financial instruments, units mentioned in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Incompatibilities.

Article L812-8

…also act as manager of a non-trading company whose sole purpose is the management of family interests. The status of court-appointed agent registered on the list does not preclude the exercise of a co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-138-1

For the application of article L. 3332-18 of the French Labour Code relating to capital increases reserved for members of a company savings plan, where the general meeting has waived preferential subs…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-13-1

Checks may be carried out : 1° In any place where a training session or event mentioned in article L. 230-3 is taking place; 2° In any establishment mentioned in article L. 322-2, in which physical or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Preparation of the draft plan.

Article L626-8

…communicated to them by the administrator and supplemented, where appropriate, with its observations.The documents mentioned in the second paragraph shall simultaneously be sent to the administrative…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Public land registry service

Article 881 L

…isions of Article 881 M :1° Where they involve the low-income housing bodies specified in l'article L. 411-2 of the Construction and Housing Code and the other bodies and local authorities indicated i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-8

…from activities relating to the supply of plasma for transfusion purposes covered by 1° of article L. 1221-8, the terms and conditions of which are laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat; 2° Incom…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Specific measures

Article L412-8

…nce contract for the sale of foodstuffs, the trader shall provide the consumer, pursuant to Article L. 221-5, in a legible and comprehensible manner, the information required by Regulation (EU) No 116…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Special schemes

Article 1594-0 F sexies

Sales resulting from the application of articles L. 181-14 to L. 181-28 of the rural and maritime fishing code relating to the agricultural development of uncultivated land, abandoned land and insuffi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L1111-8

…ssion nationale de l'informatique et des libertés and the national councils of the health professions. III - The host of the data mentioned in the first paragraph of I is approved by the Minister of C…

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