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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Capital increase.

Article L3332-22

…difference between the subscription price and the sale price determined pursuant to article L. 3332-20 and, where applicable, by the free allocation of shares or securities giving access to the capita…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Procedure.

Article R145-25

…price fixing made, as the case may be, pursuant to Article L. 145-11 or pursuant to article R. 145-20; 2° Indication of other claims; 3° Explanations of law and fact capable of justifying the claims…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Powers (R).

Article R2511-15

The municipal commission provided for in article L. 2511-20 comprises one representative of each arrondissement mayor and an equal number of representatives of the commune mayor. The municipal commiss…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Governance of credit institutions and finance companies

Article L775-6

…column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 511-51 Ordinance no. 2020-1635 of 21 December 2020 L. 511-52 Order 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 L. 511-53 Order no. 2014-15…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter

Article L230-2

…ng Code referred to in the International Convention against Doping in Sport, adopted in Paris on 19 October 2005;4° An organisation responsible for a major international sporting event that is a signa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Supplementary provisions

Article L3141-23

…inuous fraction of at least twelve working days is allocated during the period from 1st May to 31st October of each year; 2° The fractioning of leave beyond the twelfth day is carried out under the fo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions on the valuation of prudential technical provisions

Article R351-9

…n accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 31 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2015/35 of 10 October 2014; 2° Inflation, including that affecting expenses and claims; 3° All payme…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VIII: European companies

Article L322-28

…tion, the société européenne shall be governed by the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE), by the provisions of Chapter IX o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-135

Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25(6) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the public prosecutor to whom the investigation has been referred refuses t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose and award conditions

Article 821-3

…he period referred to in article 821-1 must first submit electronically, between 1 September and 31 October 2021, a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée containing a des…

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