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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Approvals and changes to shareholdings

Article R783-5

…ght-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 612-20, with the exception of 2°, 3° and 4° of In° 2017-1313 of 31 August 2017R. 612-20-1 with the excep…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Approvals and changes to shareholdings

Article R784-5

…ght-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 612-20, with the exception of 2°, 3° and 4° of In° 2017-1313 of 31 August 2017R. 612-20-1 with the excep…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article L691-2

The official receiver shall authorise the judicial representative appointed in the main insolvency proceedings opened by a court located on the national territory to make, pursuant to Article 36 of th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article L691-4

A decree in Council of State shall specify the conditions of application of this chapter.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article L691-1

…way of appeal or third party opposition, as the case may be, may challenge the decision to open the main insolvency proceedings on a ground of international jurisdiction.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article L691-3

…s made, in accordance with paragraphs 7 or 8 of Article 36 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) No 2015/848, by the local creditors of an establishment of the debtor located within the territory of a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article R691-2

The court is seised by petition of challenges raised or applications made pursuant to Article L. 691-3. The court rules on the application after hearing or duly calling in chambers the debtor who has…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article R691-1

If classes of creditors have been constituted, the official receiver shall collect, by any means, their opinions on the draft undertaking mentioned in Article L. 691-2. He informs the juge-commissaire…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional provisions relating to selective distribution aid

Article 919-39

…ies have a period of thirty months to exhibit the works in cinemas. This period runs from:1° 19 May 2021 for aid granted between 1 March 2020 and 19 May 2021;2° the date of notification of the decisio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Provisions applicable to overseas departments and regions

Article L696-1

For the application in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion of Title IX of Book VI, the words: "specially designated commercial court" are replaced by the words: "territorially competent…

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