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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Withdrawal of approval and deregistration

Article L532-12

A portfolio management company may be struck off the list of approved portfolio management companies as a sanction by the Autorité des marchés financiers.Deregistration entails the liquidation of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article L612-45

…e to statutory auditors committed by a statutory auditor of a person subject to its supervision, it may ask the competent court to remove the statutory auditor from office in accordance with the proce…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Profits

Article L232-11

…he law or the Articles of Association, plus any retained earnings. In addition, the General Meeting may decide to distribute sums deducted from the reserves available to it. In this case, the decision…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Depreciation and provisions

Article L232-9

…han the end of the fifth financial year following the year in which they were incurred. These costs may be charged against the amount of issue premiums relating to this increase. However, companies wh…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Powers of investigation.

Article L450-2-1

The documents drawn up by the agents referred to in Article L. 450-1 may be drawn up or converted into digital format and may be stored in their entirety in this form, in secure conditions, without th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article L641-15

During the judicial liquidation proceedings, the official receiver may order that the liquidator or the administrator, where one has been appointed, be the addressee of mail addressed to the debtor.Th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article L662-2

Where justified by the interests at stake, the court of appeal may decide to refer the case to another court with jurisdiction within the court's jurisdiction, or to a court mentioned in article L. 72…

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

Article L712-9

Any elected member of a public establishment in the network may be suspended or declared to have resigned automatically by the competent authority, after adversarial proceedings, in the event of serio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Discipline.

Article L811-13

A judicial administrator who is the subject of criminal or disciplinary proceedings may be provisionally suspended from performing his duties by the judicial court of the place where he is established…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article L824-7

…ly serious acts appear likely to justify criminal or disciplinary sanctions, the General Rapporteur may, when justified by urgency and the public interest, and after the person concerned has been give…

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