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Showing 75217530 of 62763 articles for Art. Arrêté DEVL1507007A of 23-3-2015

French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Statutory Auditors.

Article L820-3

…tatutory auditor shall inform in writing the person or entity whose accounts he proposes to certify of his membership of a national or international network whose exclusive activity is not statutory a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisations

Article R6122-34

I.- A decision to refuse authorisation or, when the provisions of the fourth paragraph of article L. 6122-10 are applied, to refuse authorisation renewal may only be taken for one or more of the follo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article A712-33

…to combined accounts and consolidated accounts is binding on related entities included in the scope of the combining or consolidating CCI. Failure by the entities concerned to comply with their obliga…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article A712-32

No later than the meeting following its installation, the general meeting of each public institution shall elect from among its members a finance committee, the composition and powers of which shall b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Inter-constituency groupings.

Article R711-31

The interconsular grouping may be dissolved by decree issued on the report of the minister responsible for overseeing the chambers of commerce and industry, on the proposal of the chambers concerned.T…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R711-3

The territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry of the Ile-de-France region may add associate members in numbers no greater than half of the elected members. Associate member…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions

Article L1128-3

Carrying out or causing to be carried out research involving the human person in breach of the provisions of Articles L. 1121-5 to L. 1121-8 and Article L. 1122-1-2 and in breach of Articles 31 to 34…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3841-3

…is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the version resulting from Law no. 2022-1089 of 30 July 2022 putting an end to the exceptional regimes created to combat the epidemic linked to c…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: Unit-linked life assurance or capitalisation contracts.

Article R131-3

Unlisted companies whose sole purpose is real estate or property, as referred to in 2° of article R. 131-1 , must meet the following conditions:1° Unlisted shares in non-trading companies whose sole o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions adapting Book IV.

Article L954-3

Article L. 443-1 is amended as follows:1° The last paragraph of I is replaced by the following provisions: "The cessation of advertising carried out under conditions that do not comply with the first…

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