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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article L229-7

…ies on the Supervisory Board are suspended. The provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 225-17, the second paragraph of Article L. 225-22, article L. 225-69 and the second paragraph of article…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article L612-12

…d. In the event of partial non-compliance of the application with the provisions of Articles L. 611-17, L. 611-18, L. 611-19 (4° of I) or L. 612-1, the corresponding parts of the description and drawi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Vaccinations.

Article L3111-11

…ered there and which are included on the list provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 162-17 of the said code.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The guarantee fund.

Article R334-9-1

…of the Mutual Code; d) When they carry out operations falling within the classes mentioned in 1, 2, 17, 18 and 16a of Article R. 211-2 of the Mutual Code, at least half of their contributions are paid…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK VII: Commercial jurisdictions and the organisation of commerce.

Article Annexe XI

…entified as optional, responses are mandatory to enable your request to be processed. The loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés grants you the right to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK VII: Commercial jurisdictions and the organisation of commerce.

Article Annexe XII

…ntified as optional, responses are mandatory to enable your request to be processed. The Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms grants you the right to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determining taxable income

Article 83

…ontributions to the compulsory additional public pension scheme instituted by article 76 of law no. 2003-775 of 21 August 2003 reforming pensions ;1° 0 bis Contributions paid in accordance with the pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative schemes

Article L1333-11

…of the criminal record and automated processing of personal data covered byarticle 31 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, with the exception of i…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-9-5

…nder a compulsory old-age insurance scheme or, failing that, the date referred to in article L. 161-17-2 of the Social Security Code, of the possibility of settling benefits under the policy. Each yea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European protection order by the French authorities

Article 696-96

…as the supervising State, pursuant to the articles 696-48 to 696-65 or of the articles 764-1 to 764-17, where this transfer has given rise to the adoption of measures on the territory of the supervisi…

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