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Showing 63016310 of 37258 articles for Art. CE 10-3-2020 n° 427104

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Statutory auditors

Article L511-39

…cles L. 225-38 to L. 225-43 of the French Commercial Code apply to all credit institutions and finance companies.For the application of article L. 225-40 of the same code, when these credit institutio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Local investment funds

Article L214-31

…nds (fonds d'investissement de proximité) are venture capital investment funds (fonds communs de placement à risques), at least 70% of whose assets consist of financial securities, shares in limited l…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-3

In this Code : 1° "Home Member State" means : a) in the case of non-life insurance, the Member State of the European Union in which the head office of the insurance undertaking covering the risk is si…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Direct referral to the Commission nationale d'aménagement commercial (National Commission for Commercial Development)

Article R752-43-3

…completion of the project requires planning permission, the new application is submitted in accordance with the provisions of articles R. * 423-2 et seq. of the town planning code. The mayor forwards…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Single section: Community aid

Article R113-3

…tions, sports associations or the companies they form must provide the following documents: 1° Balance sheets and profit and loss accounts for the last two financial years for which the accounts have…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Meetings of staff representatives.

Article L1233-31

…the proposed redundancies;2° The number of redundancies envisaged;3° The professional categories concerned and the proposed criteria for the order of redundancies;4° The number of employees, permanent…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2 : Art cinematographic works

Article D210-3

…aphic field; 2° A cinematographic work that has undeniable qualities but has not obtained the audience it deserved; 3° A cinematographic work that reflects the life of countries whose cinematographic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Formation of the company

Article L4041-3

…healthcare company are those who meet all the conditions required by the laws and regulations in force for practising a medical profession, a medical auxiliary or a pharmacist and who are registered,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction common to all commercial courts

Article L721-3

…ting to commitments between merchants, between craftsmen, between credit institutions, between finance companies or between them;2° Those relating to commercial companies;3° Those relating to commerci…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to French Guiana

Article R651-3

…h Guyana, subject to the adaptations provided for in this title: 1° In Article R. 610-1, the reference to Article R. 614-1 is deleted; 2° Article R. 614-1 is not applicable; 3° In Article R. 615-2, th…

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