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

Article L225-73

The statutory auditors, if any, shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with the provisions set out in Article L. 225-72 and shall denounce any breach thereof in their report to the annual genera…

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

Article L225-74

No member of the Supervisory Board may be a member of the Management Board.

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

Article L225-75

…ided for in Article L. 225-16, they are appointed in the Articles of Association. Their term of office is determined by the Articles of Association, but may not exceed six years. However, in the event…

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

Article L225-79

…or by the staff of the company and that of its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is located on French territory. The number of members of the Supervisory Board elected by the emp…

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

Article L225-71

…and permanent employees in the company and its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is located in France, or at least five thousand permanent employees in the company and its direct…

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

Article L225-72

…r of the Supervisory Board does not own the required number of shares or if, during his term of office, he ceases to own such number of shares, he shall be deemed to have resigned automatically, if he…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Copyright owners

Article L113-7

…ellectual creation of an audiovisual work shall have the status of author of that work. In the absence of proof to the contrary, the following shall be presumed to be co-authors of a collaborative aud…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Moral rights

Article L121-7

Unless otherwise stipulated in a manner more favourable to the author of software, the latter may not: 1° Oppose modification of the software by the assignee of the rights mentioned in 2° of Article L…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-7

…ouse, during the current calendar year and the following seventy years. Subject to the rights of descendants and the surviving undivorced spouse, the author may pass on the droit de suite by bequest.…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L131-7

In the event of a partial assignment, the successor in title is substituted for the author in the exercise of the rights assigned, under the conditions, within the limits and for the duration stipulat…

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