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Showing 36313640 of 21304 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 24 Nov. 1998 – Chevassus-Marche

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article L612-15-1

…f Resolution may, under the same conditions as in the second to fourth paragraphs of Article L. 612-24, require any person mentioned in I and, where applicable, II of Article L. 613-34, as well as any…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-13

The opinion of the College provided for in article L. 1142-24-5 specifies, for each head of loss, the circumstances, causes, nature and extent of the damage suffered and its assessment of the liabilit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures specific to the safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms

Article R613-19

…vention, the fund shall inform the depositor of the declaration procedures set out inarticle L. 622-24 of the French Commercial Code and decree no. 85-1388 of 27 December 1985 relating to the receiver…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer of ownership

Article L211-18

In the case of delivery of financial securities against payment of cash, failure to deliver or to settle on the date and in accordance with the conditions defined in the General Regulations of the Aut…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L2153-1

The purchaser shall guarantee economic operators and works, supplies and services from States which are parties to the Agreement on Government Procurement concluded within the framework of the World T…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

Article R2132-2

The consultation documents are made available to economic operators free of charge. For contracts that meet a need whose estimated value is equal to or greater than €40,000 excluding tax and whose pro…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Mortgages

Article R313-32

Once the loan has been concluded, the creditor shall regularly warn the borrower, on paper or on another durable medium, at least when the value of the total outstanding amount payable by the borrower…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-84

The written questions referred to in the third paragraph of Article L. 225-108 are sent to the registered office by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt addressed to the Chairman of the B…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-28

I. - A UCITS with a formula is a UCITS which meets the following two conditions:1° It is managed passively and its management objective is to reach, at the end of a given period, an amount determined…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-80-1

The fees and commissions charged for the management, marketing and investment of the funds referred to in Article D. 214-80 are broken down into the following aggregate categories, according to the ty…

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