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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Levies

Article R512-20

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Use of the "home-made" label

Article L122-20

…the cases in which the place of preparation may be different from the place of consumption or sale, and those enabling the consumer to identify "home-made" dishes and those that are not, are specified…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-203

…s correspond materially to the actual results of the operations provided for in Articles L. 225-200 and L. 225-201.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-201

…y the first dividend or the statutory interest for the period elapsed in the current financial year and, where applicable, for the previous financial year.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-202

The decisions provided for in articles L. 225-200 and L. 225-201 are subject to ratification by special meetings of each category of shareholders with the same rights.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-204

…shall vote on the report of the auditors, who shall make known their assessment of the reasons for and conditions of the reduction.When the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-205

…a proposed capital reduction not motivated by losses, the representative of the bondholders' group and the creditors whose claims predate the date on which the minutes of the deliberations are filed…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-200

Where the capital is divided either into capital shares and fully or partially amortised shares, or into unequally amortised shares, the General Meeting of shareholders may decide, under the condition…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Cross-border transactions

Article R236-20

Cross-border merger transactions shall be governed by the provisions of this subsection and by those of Section 1 of this Chapter which do not conflict therewith..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article R2-20

The administrative registration number by which the beneficiary of the authorisations mentioned in I of Article 15-4 is identified in the procedural documents that it draws up or in which it is cited…

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