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Showing 14111420 of 18775 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 26 Feb. 2008 – no. 06-20.272

French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Loans, profit participation certificates and mutualist certificates.

Article R322-79

…322-2-1 and any issue of mutualist certificates under the conditions provided for in article L. 322-26-8 must be authorised by the general meeting deliberating as described in article R. 322-63 and be…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-58

…r, the first allocation authorised by a General Meeting after the date of publication of the loi n° 2008-1258 du 3 décembre 2008 en faveur des revenus du travail may only take place if the companies c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1042

…Minister of Defence and having benefited from the scheme provided for in Article 67 of Finance Act no. 2008-1425 of 27 December 2008 for 2009, on the one hand, by local public companies created pursu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial and accounting provisions.

Article D1142-59-1

…ion of blood-derived medicinal products, for which the Office is responsible underArticle 67 of Law No. 2008-1330 of 17 December 2008 on the financing of social security for 2009, and the amount of ot…

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

Article L3334-16-2

…in 2019 to the Department of Reunion. The départements participating, pursuant to article 43 of law no. 2021-1900 of 30 December 2021 on finance for 2022, in the experiment relating to the recentralis…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Book II: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES

Article R210-1

The provisions of articles R. 141-1 to R. 141-13, R. 142-26 to R. 142-42 and R. 142-51 to R. 142-58 shall apply to foreign nationals whose situation is governed by this book.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-4-5

The information notice on the entire contract provided for in c of IV of article 3 of Order no. 2014-696 of 26 June 2014 must contain the information referred to in articles A. 132-4 and A. 132-4-4, i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Director.

Article R6145-9

…kes the decisions mentioned in article R. 162-33-16 of the social security code and article R. 6145-26 of this code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Cross-border transactions

Article R236-28

…ompany is located, within the time limit referred to in the third paragraph of II of Article R. 236-26. All members referred to in Article L. 236-40 who are interested in the sale of their units or sh…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO NEW CALEDONIA

Article L732-4

…isions provided for in II and III: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 141-5-1 law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 141-6-1Order 2014-158 of 20 February 2014 II - For the application o…

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