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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Stock options.

Article L225-186

…applicable to investment certificates, cooperative investment certificates and cooperative shareholder certificates.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article L225-206

…directly or by a person acting in his own name but on behalf of the company, is prohibited. The founders or, in the case of an increase in capital, the members of the Board of Directors or the Managem…

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Section 8: Civil liability.

Article L225-250

A liability action based on the cancellation of the company shall lapse under the conditions set out in the first paragraph of article L. 235-13.

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Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-266

…al meeting appoint one or more of them to represent the participants. If no election has yet been made, or if none of the elected proxies is a member of the workers' cooperative, special proxies shall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Sociétés en commandite par actions.

Article L226-9

…ments for the year.It receives, at the same time as the statutory auditors, if any, the documents made available to them.It may convene the general meeting of shareholders.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-145

…public other than one of those mentioned in 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the same code, the capital increase is deemed to have been completed…

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Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-149-1

…ty securities or new securities giving access to the capital as well as in the event of a merger or demerger of the company called upon to issue such securities, the Board of Directors or the Manageme…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Civil liability.

Article L225-251

…several directors and the Chief Executive Officer have cooperated in the same acts, the court shall determine the contributory share of each in the reparation of the damage..

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-138-1

For the application of article L. 3332-18 of the French Labour Code relating to capital increases reserved for members of a company savings plan, where the general meeting has waived preferential subs…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Stock options.

Article L225-184

A special report informs the Ordinary General Meeting each year of the transactions carried out under the provisions of articles L. 225-177 to L. 225-186. This report also gives an account of:the numb…

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