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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Liabilities and sanctions.

Article L653-5

…es autres créanciers; 5° Avoir, en abstenant volontairement de coopérer avec les organes de la procédure, fait obstacle à son bon déroulement ; 6° Avoir fait disparition des documents comptables, ne p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title III: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation, exchange of information and supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article R631-5

The Haut Conseil de stabilité financière shall notify its draft decisions under 4°, 4° bis or 4° ter of Article L. 631-2-1: a) Under the conditions laid down, as the case may be, in Article 458 of Reg…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES

Article L2251-5

…of new books. To qualify for the grant provided for in the first paragraph, an establishment must, during the reference period referred to in Article 1467 A of the General Tax Code or, for the collec…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS

Article L2311-5

The surplus from the operating section for the financial year ended, together with the previous result carried forward, is allocated in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the approval o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6351-5

…ute majority of the members of the Territorial Council. They may not be submitted to a local referendum or to consultation of the electorate. IV. - The Territorial Council is empowered to adapt enviro…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R356-57-1

For the purposes of the second paragraph of Article L. 356-23, events presenting one of the following characteristics are at least considered as major events within the meaning of Article L. 355-5: a)…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Conurbation community

Article L5216-5

…he conditions set out in article L. 4251-17; creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, tourist, port or airport activity zones; local trade policy a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Taxes specific to resorts

Article L2333-52

The communes or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation which, on 31 December 1983, collected the special tax on gross receipts from the sale of transport tickets by companies operating s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-52

…an indication of the persons who have undertaken to ensure such exchange; 16° The amortisation schedule for the loan.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article R561-5

For the application of 1° of I of Article L. 561-5, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall identify their customers as follows: 1° Where the customer is a natural person, by collecting the cu…

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