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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Personal recovery procedure with compulsory liquidation

Article R742-55-1

Where the provisions of Article L. 714-1, the provisions of the first paragraph of Article R. 733-17-1 shall apply. The letter provided for in this paragraph shall also include the information provide…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: Residence permits granted to beneficiaries of international protection

Article R424-12

…withdrawn if he loses the benefit of subsidiary protection in the cases mentioned in article L. 424-17.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions common to corporate officers of sociétés anonymes.

Article L225-95

…visory board, as the case may be, may exceed the number of eighteen provided for in articles L. 225-17 and L. 225-69, for a period of three years from the date of the merger set at Article L. 236-4, b…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Agreements relating to the exercise of undivided rights in the absence of a usufructuary.

Article 1873-15

Article 815-17 is applicable to joint ownership creditors, as well as to the personal creditors of the joint owners. However, the latter may only bring about partition in cases where their debtor coul…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions specific to Book I

Article L3341-1

…her" is deleted;2° In article L. 3114-9, the words "within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises" ar…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions specific to Book I

Article L3321-1

…her" is deleted;2° In article L. 3114-9, the words "within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises" ar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : State financial aid

Article L3334-16-2

…département or collectivity from the transfers and creation of competencies resulting from law no. 2003-1200 of 18 December 2003 decentralising the minimum integration income and creating a minimum a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to practice within internal-use pharmacies

Article R5126-5

…e European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who: 1° On 1 June 2017, provides evidence of practice in a structure equivalent to an in-house-use pharmacy in on…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R713-1

…provisions set out in this chapter. II.-The administrative authority referred to in article L. 713-17 is, for the election of the members of the territorial chambers of commerce and industry, the pre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Notaries' fees

Article A444-180

…iption of service Fee a) Acts and formalities taken in application of article 141 of the law of 1st June 1924 implementing French civil legislation in the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Mosell…

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