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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reporting of positions

Article L420-16

…conomic statistics. II. - To enable compliance with the provisions of Articles L. 420-11 and L. 420-12 to be monitored, members of a trading platform must provide the manager of this trading platform…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Status and purpose

Article L513-2

…e contract or the document intended for public information provided for in Regulation (EU) No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017 or any equivalent document required for admission to foreign regulated markets m…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transitional provisions

Article R356-54

…er, for quarterly financial years ending between 2 January 2017 and 1 January 2018;c) No later than 12 weeks after the end of the quarter, for quarterly financial years ending between 2 January 2018 a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-5

I.-When organising or conducting voluntary sales of furniture by public auction, the operators mentioned in article

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-5

…ic prosecutor when the proceedings are opened in favour of a debtor whose number of employees or turnover excluding tax exceeds a threshold set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.The judgment adopting th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry

Article L712-11

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Appendices

Article Annexe à l'article R224-5

TYPICAL FORM FOR WITHDRAWAL PRECIOUS METAL PURCHASE (The font size used may not be smaller than a 12-point font size) (To withdraw, you can use this model withdrawal form or any other unambiguous writ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Public land registry service

Article 881 C

…l form of legal entities when this modification does not entail the creation of a new legal entity; 12° For the publication of legal claims mentioned in c of 4° of Article 28 of Decree no. 55-22 of 4…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Contributions levied for the benefit of the Caisse nationale de l'assurance maladie (National Health Insurance Fund)

Article 1613 bis

…) whenever the drink obtained has an actual alcoholic strength of more than 1.2% vol. and less than 12% vol.II.-The rate of the tax mentioned in I is set at: 1° €3 per decilitre of pure alcohol for be…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Approved management centres

Article 1649 quater E

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