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Showing 25012510 of 56854 articles for Art. Cass. com. 31-1-2017 n° 14-29.474

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Assessment

Article L214-24-14

The AIF or its management company shall ensure that procedures are in place for the appropriate and independent valuation of the assets of the AIF and the calculation of the net asset value of its uni…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The Public Prosecutor's Office

Article R15-33-31

The natural person or legal entity, depending on whether it wishes to be authorised in the jurisdiction of the judicial court or in that of the court of appeal, shall apply to the public prosecutor or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R612-31-2

I. - When the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution issues the invitation to tender provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 612-33-2 with a view to the ex officio transfer of a p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article D214-32-14

Contributions in kind made at the formation of a fonds commun de placement are valued under the same conditions as subsequent contributions of securities and in accordance with the procedures set out…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1464 I bis

I.-Where they have applied the provisions of I of article 1464 I, the municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may, by a deliberation of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1466 B bis

I.-Locations and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status may, by a deliberation taken under the conditions provided for in I of article 1639 A bis, exempt from b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Dissolution and liquidation of the company

Article R5125-24-14

The liquidator shall sell the shares or corporate units held by the société de participations financières de profession libérale de pharmaciens d'officine in the société(s) d'exercice libéral, under t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Voter information, election campaign and voting operations

Article LO1112-14-2

The provisions of the Electoral Code and those of Law No. 77-808 of 19 July 1977 on the publication and dissemination of certain opinion polls referred to in this sub-section are applicable in their w…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Criteria and procedures for funding the professional transition project

Article R6323-14-3

I.-The regional inter-professional joint committee will pay for: 1° The educational costs and the costs of validating skills and knowledge relating to the completion of the training course; 2° The anc…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R*322-145

Associations in the event of survival or death created by tontines may only be validly constituted if they have at least two hundred members.

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