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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article R225-160-4

I.-The register of purchases and sales provided for in article L. 225-211 to report transactions carried out pursuant to II of article L. 228-12 and of the I of article L. 228-12-1 is held under the t…

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

Article 112

Distributed income shall not include:1° Allocations which, for members or shareholders, have the character of repayments of contributions or share premiums. However, a distribution shall only be deeme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1a: Unilateral employer document

Article L1233-24-4

…ommittee sets out the content of the job protection plan and specifies the elements provided for in 1° to 5° of article L. 1233-24-2, within the framework of the legal and contractual provisions in fo…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of cinemas

Article R212-12

…L. 212-17, to the operator of a cinematographic establishment who so requests: 1° If it is technically impossible to comply with some of these specifications due to specific archi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Obligation to qualify

Article L212-3

The provisions of articles L. 212-1 and L. 212-2 do not apply to military personnel, to civil servants covered by titles II, III and IV of the general status of civil servants in the performance of th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for registration on the lists of judicial representatives

Article A812-14

…n three months before the date of the first test of the session.II. - The application file includes:1° A request from the interested party;2° All official documents proving the candidate's identity an…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Unions of mutual insurance companies.

Article R*322-117-3

The mutual union which is substituted for the reinsured companies under the conditions defined in Article R. 322-117-1 must inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of the conclusio…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Membership

Article L323-2

The only members of a collective management organisation are the rightholders mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 321-1 and, where applicable, entities grouping rightholders, in particular…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxes

Article 1519 A

…h is collected for the benefit of the municipalities.The tax is declared electronically and settled:1°For those liable for value added tax, on the annex to the declaration mentioned in 1 of article 28…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other provisions

Article L632-15-1

…red when the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution intends to transmit this information: 1° To counterpart authorities established in States that are neither members of the European Union n…

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