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Showing 591600 of 35571 articles for Art. CA Amiens 27 March 1968 · Cass. com. 8 October 1991 · Cass. com. 24 November 1992 n° 91-11.055 · Cass. com. 11 January 2000 · CA Paris 17 January 2008 · Cass. com. 26 February 1979 · CA Paris 24 September 1991 · Cass. com. 26 October 1999

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-260

The company's shares consist of: 1° shares or denominations of capital shares; 2° shares known as "working shares".

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-268

…this general meeting. The number of representatives is determined by the ratio of labour shares to capital shares. They are appointed for the same term as the other directors and, like them, may be r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-263

…the other shareholders present or represented, respecting the proportion between working shares and capital shares resulting from the application of the articles of association of the company. It is d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-262

The labour shares are in registered form, registered in the name of the workers' cooperative society, inalienable for the duration of the workers' cooperative society.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-26

The public prosecutor may act ex officio to invalidate a patent.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings

Article L623-26

Events occurring prior to the publication of the issue of the certificate shall not be deemed to have infringed the rights attached to the certificate. However, acts committed after notification of a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Text and data mining for the sole purpose of scientific research

Article R122-26

…eproductions of works with a view to text and data searches referred to in article R. 122-23 may be carried out.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IIa: Letting of premises intended for furnished accommodation

Article 260 D

For the purposes of applying value added tax, the letting of furnished or unfurnished premises whose final destination is furnished accommodation is always considered to be a supply of furnished accom…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Actual turnover system

Article 267 bis

…arged in addition to this tax and according to the same rules as the latter. In addition, flat-rate calculation methods may be laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exempt transactions

Article 261 B

Services provided to their members by groups formed by natural or legal persons carrying out an activity exempt from value added tax on the basis of 4, with the exception of 10°, and 7 of article 261,…

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