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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Advertising

Article A743-12

…any positive or negative registration statement, regardless of the number of registrations 2.24 € 120 Cancellation certificate 1.13 € 121, broken down into: 121-1 Advertising of rental agreements Mai…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Capital increase.

Article L3332-19

If the shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the sale price is determined on the basis of stock market prices. The decision setting the subscription date is taken by the Board of Direc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R5141-47-1

…keting authorisation procedure issued by the European Commission pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004, in more than one Member State o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-10-2

For a similar biological medicinal product defined in a of 15° of Article L. 5121-1, the marketing authorisation may be granted before the expiry of the intellectual property rights attached to the re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings.

Article D421-8

Declarants, subject to the obligation provided for in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 421-9, are persons, acting alone or in concert in relation to the market undertaking: 1° Who directly own…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Participative finance service providers

Article R547-1

…e authorisation procedure for the service providers mentioned in Article L. 547-1, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall assess the completeness of the application within twenty-five working days…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R355-4

…this article, the entities benefiting from an exemption from disclosure may not represent more than 20% of the gross non-life insurance premiums written by all the undertakings referred to in Article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Informing users and expressing their wishes

Article R1521-2

…lis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern Territories in the wording resulting from Decree No. 2018-137 of 26 February 2018. Articles R. 1111-17 to R. 1111-20 are applicable in the territory of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Revenue

Article L6264-5

…Saint-Barthélemy to capital expenditure for the Saint-Barthélemy secondary school between 1997 and 2006 inclusive; this amount is indexed to the growth rate of gross fixed capital formation of genera…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Rules applicable to certain contracts according to their purpose

Article L2172-1

Prior to awarding a project management contract for the construction of a building, the purchaser subject to the provisions of Book IV organises a competition, under the conditions and subject to the…

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