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Showing 63516360 of 39348 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 15 May 2012 – no. 11-18.330

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Clearing houses

Article L762-8

…e wording resulting from L. 440-1 with the exception of its 3rd and 4th paragraphs and L. 440-2 Act no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 440-4 Law no. 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 L. 440-5 and L. 440-6 Orde…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Identification and verification of customer identity

Article R561-5-1

…the legal representatives or their equivalents under foreign law. The identity of the legal entity may also be verified by obtaining a certified copy of the document directly from the commercial cour…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Shared functions

Article R6132-19-6

…opinion from the grouping's strategic committee, the director general of the regional health agency may, with regard to the intentions and capacities of all the establishments that are part of the gro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Depreciation and provisions

Article L232-9

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 232-15, the company's formation expenses are amortised before any distribution of profits and, at the latest, within five years. Capital…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Right of the Board of Directors to impose sanctions - Suspension or reduction of funding

Article R2135-23

In the cases provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 2135-16, the Board of Directors may, by means of a resolution adopted in accordance with the procedures defined in the third paragraph of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Special provisions for certain investigative measures

Article 694-48

…unication in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 706-71, the judge hearing the case may, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 694-31, refuse to execute the request if it conc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Presentation of declarations.

Article R123-89

…le body, in accordance with the procedure laid down in article R. 123-1, on pain of a civil fine of 15 to 750 euros imposed by the judicial court, without prejudice to the application of disciplinary…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Sentence adjustment procedure applicable to released prisoners

Article D147-9

Where the provisions of the articles 474 and D. 48-2, the summonses provided for in Article 723-15 are issued by the sentence enforcement judge and by the prison integration and probation service. The…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Electronic complaints

Article A 1er

I.-Victims may file complaints electronically pursuant to articles 15-3-1 and D. 8-2-1 via the "Harmonised processing of investigations and alerts for e-scams" (THESEE) implemented by the General Dire…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article D532-22

…pursuant to Article 35(12) of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014. It shall inform the Autorité des marchés financiers of its decision to transmit or refu…

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