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Showing 25112520 of 33394 articles for Art. Cass. com. 20 June 1995 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 April 2004 · Cass. com. 13 December 1994 · CA Paris 17 September 2013

French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions specific to the intervention of a third party authorised to receive payment requests

Article R3133-17

If the contracting authority has recourse to a service provider whose intervention is a condition for the payment of the sums due, the intervention of the latter does not modify the payment deadline i…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Information to be provided by the candidate

Article R3123-17

At the latest before the contract is awarded, the candidate must produce any document certifying that it has not been excluded from participating in the procedure for awarding concession contracts pro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Profits

Article L232-17

The company may not require shareholders or unit holders to repay any dividends, except where the following two conditions are met:1° If the distribution has been made in breach of the provisions of a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Mergers involving joint stock companies or limited liability companies

Article L236-17

…in a merger are required to file a declaration with the Registrar in which they relate all the acts carried out with a view to the merger and by which they affirm that the transaction has been carried…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Offences relating to public limited companies with a management board and a supervisory board

Article L245-17

…1 to L. 245-15 for chairmen, managing directors and directors of public limited companies are applicable, according to their respective powers, to members of the management board and members of the s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable by court order

Article L237-17

…ore auditors may be appointed by the shareholders under the conditions set out in I of article L. 237-27. Failing this, they may be appointed, by court order, at the request of the liquidator or any i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Economic interest groupings under French law.

Article L251-17

…ng and intended for third parties, in particular letters, invoices, advertisements and various publications, must legibly state the name of the grouping followed by the words: "economic interest group…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-17

…by public auction mentioned in Article L. 321-4 and the public or ministerial officers competent to carry out judicial and voluntary sales, as well as the experts who assist them in the description, p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Acceptance.

Article L511-17

…er, in order to preserve his rights of recourse against the endorsers and against the drawer, shall cause this omission to be established by a protest drawn up in due time. Acceptance is pure and simp…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Obligations, liabilities and guarantees.

Article L522-17

…the standard regulations by laying down operating conditions that take account of the nature and location of the shop.

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