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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to the various companies.

Article R743-56

The company may not be subject to disciplinary proceedings independently of those brought against the partners.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to the various companies.

Article R743-51

In all the professional acts that he performs and in all his correspondence, the commercial court clerk shall indicate his title as commercial court clerk, his status as a partner of a company holding…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to the various companies.

Article R743-57

…vity; he shall retain, for the duration of his suspension, his status as a partner, with all rights and obligations arising therefrom.A decision which pronounces the provisional suspension of one or m…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Other tobacconists

Article 502

…of beverages not originating from their own harvest carries out their activity as a drinks retailer and is subject to the legislation on indirect taxation.They must justify any possession of beverages…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D15-1-5

The departments, units and bodies, referred to in Article 706-95-17, that may carry out operations to install the technical devices referred to in l'article 706-96 sont :the national directorate of th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 57

…ailure to produce or partial production of the documentation referred to in III of Article L. 13 AA and to Article L. 13 AB of the same book, the tax bases concerned by the request are assessed by the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 56

…lled upon to verify the declarations of taxpayers referred to in the second paragraph of Article 34 and companies operating quarries.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 54

…request from the administration, all accounting documents, inventories, copies of letters, receipts and expenditure vouchers likely to justify the accuracy of the results indicated in their return. If…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 55

…icle L. 55 of the Book of Tax Procedures (1). (1) See also Livre des procédures fiscales, art. L 10 and L 15.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 572

Where a person has used in part the material which belonged to him and in part that which did not belong to him to form a thing of a new kind, without either of the two materials being entirely destro…

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