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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Drawing up and maintaining lists

Article R822-15

Statutory auditors or firms of statutory auditors shall inform the High Council without delay, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by electronic means, of any change in their situa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Drawing up and maintaining lists

Article R822-17

The third-country auditors mentioned in I of Article L. 822-1-5 are entered by the High Council on the list referred to in II of Article L. 822-1. This list includes the information mentioned in artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Drawing up and maintaining lists

Article R822-16

The statutory audit firms mentioned in article L. 822-1-4 file or send, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, an application for registration with the Haut conseil du commissariat aux…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Drawing up and maintaining lists

Article R822-12

The wording of the oath provided for in article L. 822-3 is as follows: "I swear to practise my profession with honour, probity and independence, and to respect and ensure respect for the law. "The oa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 144

Pre-trial detention may only be ordered or extended if it is shown, in the light of the precise and detailed elements resulting from the proceedings, that it constitutes the sole means of achieving on…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: Proceedings before the guardianship judge

Article 1225

Where it has not been possible to give them the summons, the court registry sends a summons to the hearing to the protected adult or adult to be protected, except where the judge has decided that ther…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Inheritance and gifts

Article 1330

In addition to the particulars prescribed, as the case may be, for deeds drawn up by a judicial auctioneer, a bailiff or a notary, by the laws and regulations applicable to these professions, the inve…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rules governing certain bodies and companies

Article 1655

Persons who, under cover of associations governed by the loi du 1er juillet 1901 or by the local law maintained in force in the Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle departments, serve meals, sell drinks fo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I : Cancellation and rectification of civil status records

Article 1047

The purely material errors or omissions which, pursuant to Article 99-1 of the Civil Code, may be rectified by the civil registrar, are: 1° An error or omission in a civil status record, proof of whic…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter II: Sale of goods in storage.

Article 188

1. The proceeds of the sale shall be applied, in order of priority and up to the amount of the proceeds :a) to the payment of costs and other incidental expenses of all kinds incurred by the Customs o…

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