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Showing 51715180 of 37142 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 19 March 1996 · Cass. com. 15 September 2009 · Cass. com. 16 January 1973 · Cass. 1re civ. 14 March 1962 · Cass. com. 12 November 2008 · Cass. com. 9 October 2019 n° 18-13.286

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-149-1

…f obtaining the allocation of equity securities by exercising the right mentioned in Article L. 225-149 or article L. 225-178. Unless otherwise provided for in the issue contract, the equity securitie…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operation of the national conference

Article R 1424-62

…nce may only deliberate if at least half of the members mentioned in a, b, c, d and g of article R. 1424-59 are present. If these conditions are not met, the national conference is convened for a new…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Declaration of hazardous mixtures

Article R1342-16

…downstream user is unable to provide all or part of the information referred to in Article R. 1342-15 within the time allowed, he shall inform the designated body referred to in Article R. 1342-13 of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment service providers

Article L572-12

…on to publish the annual accounts in accordance with the conditions set out in IV of article L. 522-19 is punishable by a fine of €15,000.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Mandate

Article L722-15

…2-3, or to perform the duties of a juge-commissaire under the conditions provided by article L. 722-14, the first president of the court of appeal, at the request of the public prosecutor, may decide…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Issue of the licence and prior declaration

Article R7123-12

…contributions; 5° Proof that a financial guarantee has been obtained in accordance with article L. 7123-19 or proof that an equivalent guarantee has been obtained in the country of establishment; 6° T…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Proceedings with compulsory representation.

Article 906

The submissions shall be served and the exhibits communicated simultaneously by each party's lawyer to the other party's lawyer; in the case of multiple plaintiffs or defendants, they must be served o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640 E

For the application of 1 of I of article 1636 B sexies to communes located on the territory of the Greater Paris metropolis that were members on 1 January 2015 of a public establishment for inter-comm…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-14

…isions referred to in Article L. 351-2, on the basis of consolidated data, are set out in Article 339 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2015/35 of 10 October 2014. At group level, the calcula…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: In-company vocational re-education agreement

Article R5213-16

Notwithstanding articles R. 5213-10 and R. 5213-12, the agreement referred to in I of article L. 5213-3-1 does not require the prior opinion of the Commission des droits et de l'autonomie des personne…

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