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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Other payment instruments

Article D732-12

…clesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 133-1 to D. 133-32009-934 of 29 July 2009D. 133-4No. 2017-1314 of 31 August 2017D. 133-5 to D. 133-7n° 2009-934 of 29 July 2009D. 133-8 to D. 133-12No. 2…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Other payment instruments

Article D733-12

…clesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 133-1 to D. 133-32009-934 of 29 July 2009D. 133-4No. 2017-1314 of 31 August 2017D. 133-5 to D. 133-7n° 2009-934 of 29 July 2009D. 133-8 to D. 133-12No. 2…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Management and information costs and costs relating to the tasks of skills operators

Article R6332-19

The expenditure referred to in article R. 6332-17 of the skills operator is allocated on a pro rata basis of the sums allocated within the framework of: 1° The sections referred to in article L. 6332-…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Acts concerning the protection of family members

Article A444-75

The establishment of alimony and indexed annuities (numbers 30 and 31 of table 5) gives rise to the collection of:1° A proportional fee:a) Either to the capital formed by ten times the annual benefit,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable profits and income

Article 238-0 A

…by the decision of the Council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development dated 17 September 2009, considers, as the case may be, that they are, or are not, exchanging any informat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Approval and exclusion.

Article L125-12

The contract of incorporation or the Articles of Association, as the case may be, may make any transfer of shares subject to the approval of the transferee by the general meeting of the group or by th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-9

Collective shops of independent traders already created through a legal person may, by way of adaptation or transformation, be placed under the regime provided for by this chapter. Any member may, by…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 7: Provisions relating to the implementation of other resolution measures

Article L613-56-8

I.-The collège de résolution may suspend any obligation to pay or deliver financial instruments resulting from a contract to which a person referred to in I of Article L. 613-34 is bound if all of the…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VI: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN NEW CALEDONIA

Article R446-2

…the following provisions shall apply in New Caledonia in the wording resulting from decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated in the table below.Articles applicableIn their wor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Collective investment management companies

Article L543-1

…pital funds covered by Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on European venture capital funds and managers of European social entrepreneurship fun…

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