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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Obligations

Article L744-5

…same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 213-5 Order no. 2000-1223 of 14 December 2000 L. 213-6 law n° 2003-706 of 1st August 2003 L. 213-6-1 law no. 2006-387 of 31 March 2006…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-10

The investigating judge is competent to rule on requests to freeze assets as well as to execute them.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: National tattoo product vigilance system.

Article R513-10-12

When the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé makes a reasoned request, the person responsible for placing the product on the market shall send h…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article D23-10-2

…s follows: 1° During an employee information meeting at the end of which employees sign the attendance register for this meeting; 2° By posting. The date of receipt of the information is that affixed…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Administration of the collective shop

Article L125-10

…to the constitutive contract or to the articles of association, as the case may be, are rules of procedure. The constitutive contract or the articles of association, as well as the rules of procedure,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-10

The exclusion of a member may be pronounced, as the case may be, by the board of directors or by the supervisory board if the cooperative society is constituted as a société anonyme, or by the managem…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions applicable to natural persons

Article L123-10

…ditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. This decree also specifies the equipment or services required to prove that the domiciled company has actually set up business.Natural persons may de…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-10

…s chapter, or pursuant to the second paragraph of article 2346 of the Civil Code, shall not take place until ten days at the earliest after notification of the proceedings to the creditors who have re…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Management leases.

Article L144-10

…cting parties may not invoke such nullity against third parties. The nullity provided for in the preceding paragraph shall entail for the contracting parties the forfeiture of any rights they may have…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Seller's lien.

Article L141-10

…ing the resolutory action within one month of the notification, they are deprived, vis-à-vis the successful bidder, of the right to exercise it.

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