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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Scientific Council and expert committees

Article R1313-25

…Scientific Advisory Board is responsible for : 1° To give an opinion on the institution's research and expertise guidelines and on the Agency's scientific partnership and programming policy; 2° To as…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Collection of data and information

Article R444-21

The information and data provided for in articles R. 444-18 to R. 444-20 are collected from the professionals mentioned in article L. 444-1 by the national professional bodies listed in Article R. 444…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Collection of data and information

Article R444-20

…practising professionals on 1 January of the calendar year shall provide the Ministers of Justice and the Economy, for the purposes of statistical verification, with their surnames, first names, dat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 8: Verification and admission of claims.

Article R631-29

Articles R. 624-1, excluding the first paragraph, and R. 624-2 to R. 624-11 are applicable to receivership proceedings. The verification of claims is carried out by the mandataire judiciaire in the pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Verification and admission of claims.

Article R641-28

…licable to judicial liquidation proceedings. The liquidator performs the functions assigned to the mandataire judiciaire by these provisions.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Verification and admission of claims.

Article R641-29

When the compulsory liquidation is ordered during safeguard or receivership proceedings, the liquidator shall complete the list of claims mentioned in Article R. 624-2. He deposits the completed list…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Verification and admission of claims.

Article R641-27

…is duties, shall submit to the official receiver a statement mentioning the valuation of the assets and the preferential and unsecured liabilities. In the light of this statement and after having hear…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Multi-title and ancillary offices

Article R742-29

…ercial courts whose registered offices are located within the same jurisdiction of the court of appeal..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article R1612-29

When the initial budgets for the financial years during which the deficit is to be absorbed do not show sufficient measures for this absorption, the regional audit chamber, to which these budgets have…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article R1612-28

…to measures that are the sole responsibility of the local authority or public institution concerned and that are designed to eliminate the deficit. They specify the period during which the clearance i…

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