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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 5: Rights of registered persons and access to information

Article A123-97

…R. 123-222 shall be kept until the end of the fifth year following the death of the person concerned. After this period, the data is kept in the form of an intermediate archive. The designation of th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-3

…t is seventy years from 1 January of the calendar year following that in which the work was published. The date of publication is determined by any method of proof under ordinary law, and in particula…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article R123-277

The President of the regional Chamber of Trades and Crafts or, by delegation, the President of the departmental Chamber of Trades and Crafts, validates the information entered and the documents submit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 3: Filing of accounting documents, declaration of confidentiality and declaration of simplified publication of annual accounts.

Article R123-111

Commercial companies are required to file, within one month of their approval by the ordinary general meeting, the accounting documents provided for in articles L. 232-21 to L. 232-23. The filing of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Compulsory books, documents and accounting vouchers.

Article R123-174

Movements affecting the company's assets are recorded transaction by transaction and day by day for the daybook. All accounting records specify the origin, content and allocation of each item of data…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Write-offs

Article R123-316

The keeper of the National Register of Companies shall proceed with the striking off of any person: 1° As from the closure of bankruptcy proceedings, the liquidation of assets due to insufficient asse…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-224

Identification numbers are allocated by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques to registered legal units and their establishments: 1° Either, for companies, during the proce…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 3: Declarations of amending or supplementary registration.

Article R123-46

Sont soumis à l'obligation prévue à l'article R. 123-45 :1° Final decisions placing an adult under guardianship or trusteeship within the meaning of Article 440 of the Civil Code and those which relea…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article L123-30

In addition to officers and agents of the judicial police, the following are competent to record by official report the offences provided for by the decree mentioned in Article L. 123-31: 1° The deput…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales

Article A123-76

…gistered office of the grouping and the place where the transfer of the registered office is proposed.

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