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Showing 41314140 of 21304 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 24 Nov. 1998 – Chevassus-Marche

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-2

I. In the management of collective investments, portfolio management companies shall take all reasonable steps to obtain the best possible result in executing orders, taking into account price, cost,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-5

A price offer or practice of selling prices to consumers that are unreasonably low in relation to production, processing and marketing costs is prohibited where the purpose of such an offer or practic…

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

Article R214-71

After making a declaration to the Autorité des marchés financiers and to the tax department with which its management company files its income tax return, a local investment fund may enter into a pre-…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Communication media and exchanges of information

Article R2132-14

The purchaser is deemed to offer other appropriate means of access in all of the following cases: 1° Where it offers free, unrestricted, full and direct access by electronic means to the tools and dev…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-12

In municipalities with a population of 3,500 or more, a summary explanatory note on the matters submitted for deliberation must be sent to the members of the municipal council with the notice of meeti…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating rights

Article R333-3-3

Where the marketing of exploitation rights for sporting events or competitions organised by a professional league is carried out by a commercial company created pursuant to the third paragraph of Arti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Administrative police measures

Article L612-35-1

I.-Police measures ordered by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall be published in the official register of the authority when they concern breaches of: 1° the rules intended to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-17

By way of derogation from the provisions of article L. 233-16, the companies referred to in the said article are exempted, under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, from the obligati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Safeguard plan.

Article L626-2

In the light of the economic, social and, where applicable, environmental assessment, the debtor, with the assistance of the administrator, shall propose a plan, without prejudice to the application o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The constitution of the European company.

Article R229-20

…proposed conversion of the société anonyme, provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 225-245-1, is the subject of a notice inserted in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements in…

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