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Showing 47514760 of 8936 articles for Art. 9 Mar 2004

French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Subscription, purchase or pledging by companies of their own shares

Article L22-10-64

Companies must declare to the Autorité des marchés financiers the transactions they intend to carry out pursuant to the provisions of article L. 22-10-62. This declaration is deemed to have been made…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Dispensaries

Article L6424-1

…e integrated into the public health establishment from the date set by article 50 of law no. 2003-1199 of 18 December 2003 on the financing of social security for 2004. The rights and obligations, rec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-102-5

…Provisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2017-750 DC of 23 March 2017]. The action for liability shall be brought before the competent court by any person prov…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Article L2445-1

…Act no. 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021;5° Articles L. 2212-1 and L. 2212-5, as amended by Law no. 2022-295 of 2 March 2022.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: The general meeting of mutual insurance companies

Article R*322-68

…spectively for the application of Section VI of Chapter IV of Title I of Law no. 66-537 of 24 July 1966 on commercial companies and Section VI of Chapter IV of Title I of Decree no. 67-236 of 23 March…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Construction. Housing

Article 1050

…on companies whose articles of association comply with the standard clauses appended to decree no. 69-295 of 24 March 1969 and the majority of whose capital is held by public authorities are subject t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Other conditions of access and practice.

Article A512-7

…e Commission nationale de la certification professionnelle, as amended by decree no. 2007-466 of 28 March 2007 ; -training speciality 313 of the nomenclature of training specialities approved by decre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Consultation of registered information

Article R521-29

…electronic communication of procedural documents made possible by this electronic portal. Before 31 March each year, the Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce will submit to the Min…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12 bis : Fees payable for occupancy of the public domain by water and sewerage works

Article R2333-121

…year, in proportion to the change in the "engineering" index, defined in the Journal officiel of 1 March 1974 and published in the Bulletin officiel du ministère chargé de l'équipement, measured over…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operation of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R782-3

…articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 612-2 to R. 612-5, R. 612-6 and R. 612-7n° 2013-978 of 30 October 2013R. 612-7-1 and R. 612-7-2n° 2015-1160 of 17 September 2015R. 612-9n° 2010-217…

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