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Showing 49414950 of 9058 articles for Art. CE 24-11-2017 n° 396209

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R612-27

…r the application of the sixth paragraph of article L. 612-24, the summons is sent to the person concerned in the manner provided for in article R. 612-9, at least eight days before the date of the su…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Registration and publicity.

Article R4381-37

…1978 amending Title IX of Book III of the Civil Code, the company is exempt from publishing the notices provided for in these articles in a legal gazette.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Classes of insurance and statements to be produced

Article A344-2

…(or free payments) ;2 capitalisation contracts with periodic premiums;3 Individual term life assurance policies (including open groups);4 Other individual single-premium life insurance contracts (or f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Suspended sentence

Article R60-1

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-100

I.-An Ordinary General Meeting is held at least once a year, within six months of the end of the financial year, unless this period is extended by court order. If the Ordinary General Meeting has not…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transferable debt securities.

Article L228-39

…nto or the bonds issued, the issue of bonds by a joint stock company that has not drawn up two balance sheets duly approved by the shareholders must be preceded by a verification of the assets and lia…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The departments and units referred to in article 15-1

Article R15-23

The categories of national gendarmerie units within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties and whose jurisdiction extends to the area of responsibility of one or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Financial penalties imposed by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products)

Article L5471-1

I.-The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may impose a financial penalty on the perpetrator of a breach of the provisions of articles L. 5421-8 , L. 5422-18 , L. 5423-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article R214-32-16

…to 4° of I of Article R. 214-32-18, in the form of accurate, reliable and regularly established prices, which are either market prices or prices provided by valuation systems independent of the issue…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : State financial aid

Article L3334-16-3

…Code to property tax on built-up properties are allocated to the départements as compensation for exceptional revaluations of the flat-rate amount of the revenu de solidarité active according to the p…

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