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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° bis: Young innovative companies

Article 1383 D

…n built-up properties for a period of seven years buildings belonging to a company created until 31 December 2025 and meeting, during the reference period mentioned in article 1467 A, under the condit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-134

I.-If irreducible subscriptions and, where applicable, reducible subscriptions have not absorbed the entire capital increase: 1° The amount of the capital increase may be limited to the amount of subs…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation.

Article L2352-13

The special negotiating body takes its decisions by an absolute majority of its members, which must also represent an absolute majority of the employees of the participating companies, subsidiaries an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-130

I.-The qualified person shall send the application for authorisation provided for in Article L. 5141-12 to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'en…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-23-1

…matter of the patent is not patentable under the terms of Articles L. 611-10, L. 611-11 and L. 611-13 to L. 611-19; 2° The patent does not set out the invention clearly and completely enough for a pe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions specific to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article L632-12-1

Notwithstanding the provisions of Law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-129

Autovaccines are prepared under the responsibility of a qualified person, who has obtained the authorisation provided for in article L. 5141-12, in facilities which may, where appropriate, be made ava…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: The confession

Article 1383-1

A purely verbal extrajudicial confession is received only in cases where the law allows proof by any means.Its probative value is left to the judge's discretion.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The alternative obligation

Article 1307-4

A creditor who has not made his choice known must, if one of the performances becomes impossible to perform as a result of force majeure, be satisfied with one of the others.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article R225-134

If shares are paid up by offsetting claims on the company, these claims are the subject of an account statement drawn up by the Board of Directors or the Management Board and certified as accurate by…

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