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Showing 34113420 of 29661 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 11-DCC-150 du 10 Oct 2011

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Detection of business difficulties by the president of the court

Article R611-10

…or natural person by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt and by ordinary letter, reproducing the terms of I of Article L. 611-2 and, where applicable, those of article L. 611-2-1, as wel…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Redundancies in the absence of secondary proceedings

Article R692-10

In application of Article L. 692-10, in the context of proceedings similar to receivership or judicial liquidation with continuance of business, the application for authorisation of redundancies is fi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Identification and verification of the identity of occasional customers

Article D561-10-1

The threshold provided for in 11° of Article L. 561-2 is set at 10,000 euros per transaction or related transactions.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special provisions for construction insurance

Article A421-10

…he liabilities side of the balance sheet by the special reserve referred to in II of article L. 421-10-1 and the technical provisions relating to compensation for these losses. The assets side of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R214-106

…rticle L. 214-40, account is taken of : 1° In the denominator, the assets mentioned in 4° and 6° to 10° of I of article L. 214-36 held by the undertaking ; 2° In the numerator, the debt of the real es…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Common provisions.

Article L123-11-8

It is punishable by six months' imprisonment and a fine of €7,500 for any person to carry out the domiciliation activity referred to in Article L. 123-11-2 without having first obtained the authorisat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D5217-10

…ross presentation, by function or by nature, provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 5217-10-5 is made between the most detailed level of the functional nomenclature and each of the accounts…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-11

…or of the agreement provided for in article L. 232-21, except where b of IV of article L. 232-23-3-10 is applied. Where the person concerned is currently serving a suspension for an anti-doping viola…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IX: The European Company

Article L229-10

Any European Company may convert into a public limited company if, at the time of the conversion, it has been registered for more than two years and has had the balance sheet for its first two financi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Operations of strategic interest to the French economy abroad

Article R442-11-1

The guarantee provided for in a of 1° of article L. 432-2 may be granted to the beneficiaries mentioned in article L. 432-1 carrying out a transaction of strategic interest for the French economy abro…

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