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Showing 47914800 of 6535 articles for Art. CA Rennes – 17 Dec. 2024 – no. 23/05277

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L313-31

Short-term credit transactions that have not resulted in the assignment or pledging of business receivables to the lending credit institution or finance company may give rise to the issue by the latte…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Functional allowances.

Article L2123-21

…depending on the population of the associated commune. The second paragraph of this Article is applicable to the deputy mayors of communes resulting from a merger of communes pursuant to Section 3 of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Sole traders with limited liability

Article L526-13

…ted liability is required to open one or more bank accounts in a credit institution exclusively dedicated to the activity to which the assets have been assigned.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Fees

Article R623-35

If the owner of the plant variety certificate has lodged an appeal with the Paris Court of Appeal against the decision of the person in charge of the tasks falling within the remit of the national pla…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions relating to the electronic recognition of professional qualifications of regulated professions

Article R123-30-10

…under the legislative or regulatory provisions in force that have been digitised;3° Where the application for recognition of professional qualification gives rise to the charging of fees, proof of th…

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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 Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-47

…hird paragraph of Article L. 225-82.The attendance register may be kept in electronic form; in this case, the register shall be signed by means of an electronic signature that meets at least the requi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-26

For avocats au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de cassation and avocats, except where they act as fiduciaries, the person responsible for responding to any request from the department referred to in Artic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Content and transmission of declarations

Article R561-31-2

For the application of Article L. 561-15-1, cash deposits made into a deposit or payment account opened in the name of a customer, other than a person mentioned in 1° to 7° of Article L. 561-2, and ca…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title VII: Conditions of application in Overseas France of Book V relating to service providers

Article R771-1

For the application of this Title in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, references to Regulations (EU) of the European Parliament and of the C…

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