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Showing 861870 of 45696 articles for Art. CE 2-12-2022 n° 460100

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Managing Director

Article L518-12

…by the Supervisory Board, particularly in terms of internal control and risk management. At least once during the calendar year, he is heard on the Caisse des dépôts et consignations' intervention pol…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the committee provided for in article 16-2

Article R15-12

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Managing Director.

Article R518-12

…nistrators and establishments for which Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is responsible for the receipts and expenditure the annual accounts of the operations concerning each administration and esta…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Joint and several liability of those responsible

Article L481-12

…481-1 which has benefited from a total exemption from a financial penalty pursuant to a leniency procedure shall be determined in accordance with the rule set out in the second sentence of Article L.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Control of the legality of the transfer of the registered office.

Article R229-12

For the purposes of issuing the certificate referred to in the seventh paragraph of Article L. 229-2, the European Company shall produce to the notary responsible for carrying out the legality control…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Samples taken outside health regions where medical biology laboratories are located

Article R6211-12

…r which the analytical phase is carried out in a medical biology laboratory of a health examination centre operated by a health insurance organisation or by a non-profit organisation;3° The taking of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Continuation of the business.

Article R622-12

The decision by which the court terminates the proceedings pursuant to Article L. 622-12 is immediately followed by an end-of-assignment report filed by the judicial representatives under the conditio…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Recommendations sent to subscribers

Article R331-12

…tember 1986 on freedom of communication is informed of new facts likely to constitute gross negligence as defined in article R. 335-5, he shall inform the subscriber, by letter delivered against signa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Groupement de coopération sanitaire de moyens exploiting authorisations held by one or more of its members

Article R6133-12

…embers, leads to a change in the conditions under which the authorisations are used, each member concerned sends the Director General of the Regional Health Agency a request for a change in the author…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation and exchanges of information on national territory

Article L785-12

…ht-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 631-1 Ordinance no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 631-2 Law 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 631-2-1, with the excep…

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