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Showing 15511560 of 2875 articles for Art. 123 bis

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

Article A321-4

The following are admitted as exemptions from a national bachelor's degree in art history, or the applied arts, or archaeology or the plastic arts required to manage voluntary sales of furniture by pu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: The single body responsible for business formalities

Article R123-14

…s benefit from free assistance in completing the formalities and procedures mentioned in article R. 123-1. This assistance is provided by the single body, the consular chambers and the recipient bodie…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Validation of data in the National Register of Companies and checks carried out by certain authorities

Article R123-279

For the purposes of satisfying the checks provided for in article L. 123-45, any natural or legal person subject to the obligation to register in the National Register of Companies as a company in the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cancer centres.

Article L6162-11

…in 1° of article L. 6162-9 is enforceable as soon as it has been signed by all the parties. The 2° bis and the penultimate paragraph of article L. 6143-4 are applicable to the 3° of the same article…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Nature of copyright

Article L111-3

…except in the cases provided for by the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 123-4. These rights subsist in the person of the author or his successors in title who, however, may…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Powers of the overseas regions in relation to economic development and regional planning

Article L4433-10-10

…brought to the attention of the public in accordance with the second paragraph of II of article L. 123-19 of the Environment Code. The chairman of the deliberative assembly may provide for additional…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: The single body responsible for business formalities

Article R123-30-11

The administrative authority responsible for implementing the IT service referred to in Article R. 123-30-9 shall send the applicant, when the latter submits the application, an electronic registratio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Automatic registrations

Article R123-309

…ests from the keeper of the National Business Register, via the single body mentioned in article R. 123-1, for the entry in the file of the company concerned, for each activity falling within the trad…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations to be made by legal entities

Article A123-16

…ons mentioned in article L. 213-8 of the Monetary and Financial Codedeclare, pursuant to article R. 123-62 : 1° The title of the association, followed, where applicable, by the acronym; 2° The address…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Filing and registration of the declaration

Article R6351-3

…this part and registered or having declared its activity to the single body mentioned inarticle R. 123-1 of the French Commercial Code. In this case, the organisation must declare itself to the regio…

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