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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-21

…continued by the debtor, who exercises the prerogatives devolved to the administrator by Article L. 631-17 and makes the notifications provided for in the second paragraph of II of article L. 631-19.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue, redemption and conversion of preference shares.

Article R228-21

The reports mentioned in articles R. 228-17 to R. 228-20 are sent to the special meetings of holders of preference shares concerned when they are asked to approve these amendments. They shall be made…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-31-1

…ate referred to in Article 230-9 does not order the deletion or rectification, the interested party may, pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 230-8 and the fourth paragraph of Article 230-9, ref…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties for non-compliance with the obligation to declare and provide information

Article L7122-16

…gations set out in the third paragraph of I of article L. 7122-4, or in 1° or 2° of article L. 7122-6, or does not hold a qualification of equivalent effect referred to in article L. 7122-5, the compe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases

Article L242-17

The chairman, directors or managing directors of a public limited company are liable to a fine of €150,000, issue shares or share denominations without the previously subscribed capital of the company…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Use of funds by skills operators to pay for work-linked training, personal training accounts and skills development for companies with fewer than fifty employees

Article L6332-17

Under the financial section mentioned in 2° of Article L. 6332-3 relating to actions contributing to the development of skills for the benefit of companies with fewer than fifty employees: 1° The cost…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-17

…ining inactivated or attenuated micro-organisms or toxins, to which the provisions of articles R. 5124-58, R. 5141-140 and R. 5142-50 apply respectively.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reorganisation and winding-up measures for credit institutions and investment firms

Article L613-31-1

…utions have branches established in at least two Member States;2° To the persons mentioned in 3° to 6° of the I of Article L. 613-34 against whom a resolution measure has been taken by a competent res…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Turnover taxes and similar miscellaneous taxes

Article 1609 tricies

…d by players and the sums paid out or to be paid out to winners. The sums wagered by players from 1 January 2020 are defined as sums wagered from the date on which the event or events on which the gam…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Withholding tax on income from shares and similar income, where the beneficiaries do not have their real domicile or registered office in France, and on interest and bond income

Article 1672 bis

…mpanies; 2° Income referred to in 1° of Article 118 and relating to securities issued on or after 1 January 1965. These provisions do not apply in the event of the redemption of bonus shares. 2. Insof…

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