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Showing 441450 of 26700 articles for Art. CA Paris 20 September 2013 n° 12/01999 · Cass. com. 15 April 1982

French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R225-20

…hird paragraph of Article L. 225-37.The attendance register may be kept in electronic form; in this case, the register shall be signed using an electronic signature that meets at least the requirement…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article R5122-20

…equests for authorisation to place employees on partial activity and requests for compensation ; 2° Calculation and payment of the partial activity allowance paid to the establishment or to the employ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Cooperation agreements and secondments

Article R5132-20

…es of the employees made available; 2° The tasks to be performed; 3° The place where they are to be carried out; 4° The term of the assignment; 5° Where the user is a company, the amount of remunerati…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and special schemes.

Article 208 D

…d, which, from the time of their creation, have as their sole corporate purpose the subscription in cash to the initial capital or to capital increases of companies having their registered office in a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Job and career management

Article L2242-20

…in the meaning of article L. 2331-1 with at least three hundred employees, as well as in Community-scale undertakings and groups of undertakings within the meaning of articles L. 2341-1 and L. 2341-2…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Reduction of capital.

Article L225-205

When the meeting approves a proposed capital reduction not motivated by losses, the representative of the bondholders' group and the creditors whose claims predate the date on which the minutes of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Implementation of the guarantee

Article R1251-20

…ault if it is the subject of a safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation procedure. In this case, the manager is informed of the judgement, in the same way, by the legal representative or by t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating rules

Article R621-20

…he payment of expenditure if, in the course of his checks, he finds irregularities or if the certifications issued by the Chairman are inaccurate. He shall inform the President thereof.Where the Accou…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6123-203

I.-Authorisation is granted to applicants who provide: 1° Both outpatient surgical care and full-time inpatient surgical care; 2° Or outpatient surgical care only. In this case, the holder enters into…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-20

…s been definitively sentenced to a penalty, from the end of the execution of the penalty or, in the case of a suspended sentence, from the fact that the penalty has not been carried out; 2° Or, if the…

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