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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Capital amortisation.

Article L225-200

Where the capital is divided either into capital shares and fully or partially amortised shares, or into unequally amortised shares, the General Meeting of shareholders may decide, under the condition…

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Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article L225-216

…acquisition by employees of shares in the company, in one of its subsidiaries or in a company included within the scope of a group savings plan provided for in article L. 444-3 du code du travail.

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Section 8: Civil liability.

Article L225-254

Liability actions against directors or the managing director, both corporate and individual, shall be barred after three years, starting from the harmful event or, if it was concealed, from its revela…

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Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-261

…ried staff, formed into a labour cooperative company. This labour company must and exclusively includes all employees who have been linked to the company for at least one year and who are over eightee…

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Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-262

The labour shares are in registered form, registered in the name of the workers' cooperative society, inalienable for the duration of the workers' cooperative society.

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Chapter VI: Sociétés en commandite par actions.

Article L226-5

The Articles of Association must provide for an age limit for the performance of the duties of Supervisory Board member applying either to all Supervisory Board members or to a specified percentage of…

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Chapter VI: Sociétés en commandite par actions.

Article L226-8

Any remuneration other than that provided for in the Articles of Association may only be allocated to the Executive Chairman by the Ordinary General Meeting. It may only be made with the unanimous agr…

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Chapter VI: Sociétés en commandite par actions.

Article L226-14

…a société en commandite par actions into a société anonyme or a société à responsabilité limitée is decided by the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, with the agreement of the majority of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-2

I.-With a view to identifying the owners of bearer securities, the Articles of Association may provide that the issuing company or a third party designated by it is entitled to request, at any time an…

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Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-3-6

…icles L. 228-2 to L. 228-3-1 are processed automatically by the issuing company for the purpose of identifying the owners of its shares and communicating with these owners to facilitate their particip…

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