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Showing 13311340 of 19671 articles for Art. Cass. com. 26 juin 1990 n° 88-14444

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval.

Article R511-3-2

…and, where applicable, Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, in particular as regards whether the group to which it will belong has a structure whi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Negotiating committee

Article D7343-98

The platforms' college has a number of seats equal to the number of seats in the employees' college, divided equally between the various platform organisations. If the number of seats does not allow f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Housing finance companies

Article R513-20

…of 1 of Article 416 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 ;2° Within the limit of the sums due within 180 days pursuant to Article R. 513-7, in a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Intermediary parent companies

Article R517-9

…national provisions of the Member States of the European Union transposing Directive 2013/36/ EU of 26 June 2013 or Directive 2014/65/ EU of 15 May 2014. For the purposes of this Article, the term "in…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Nordic cross-country skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192-1

In application of the provisions of articles R. 212-88 and R. 212-92, nationals of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who wish to provide su…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Alpine skiing and related activities.

Article A212-184

In application of the provisions of articles R. 212-88 and R. 212-92, nationals of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who wish to supervise,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Schools of territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L711-19

Territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry shall define their relationship with the consular higher education establishments they have set up, either…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-13

…ional auditing standards adopted by the European Commission under the conditions defined by Article 26 of Directive 2006/43/EC of 17 May 2006 on statutory audits of annual accounts and consolidated ac…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transitional provisions

Article R356-54

…referred to in II of Article L. 356-21 in accordance with the following timetable:a) No later than 26 weeks after the end of the undertaking's financial year, for financial years ending between 30 Ju…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Group action

Article L652-2

…THEY THEY ARE WRITTEN L. 623-1 to L. 623-9 and L. 623-11 to L. 623-32 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 623-10 Resulting from the loi n° 2016-1547 du 18 novembre 2016

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