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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Permission to leave

Article D143-5

Persons sentenced to one or more custodial sentences of a total duration not exceeding five years and persons sentenced to one or more custodial sentences of a total duration exceeding five years when…

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

Article L561-10-3

I.-When a person mentioned in 1° to 1°c or 5° to 6°a of Article L. 561-2 has a cross-border correspondent relationship with a financial institution located in a country that is not a member of the Eur…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Credit transactions

Article L341-52

Any person who pays or causes to be paid the staff mentioned in the fourth and seventh paragraphs of article L. 314-23 under conditions contrary to these provisions is punishable by a fine of 30,000 e…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility

Article L22-10-78

…s, if any, present, in a report attached to the management report mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 225-100, their observations on this report with regard to the information mentioned in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article L22-10-45

Deliberations made by meetings in breach of the provisions of articles L. 22-10-31, L. 22-10-32 and L. 22-10-33 are null and void.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting tariffs

Article R444-10-1

The services mentioned in the last sentence of the last paragraph of article L. 444-2, for which the rate of the discount may, over and above the amount of the fee set by the order mentioned in articl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-62

The general meeting of a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L. 433-3 of the Monetary and F…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Management and administration

Article L22-10-9

…and comprehensible manner, within the corporate governance report referred to in the last paragraph of Article L. 225-37, where applicable, for each corporate officer, including corporate officers who…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Purchases by French companies from French suppliers in competition with a foreign company receiving official export support

Article R442-10-6

The guarantee provided for in a ter of 1° of article L. 432-2 may be granted to French supplier companies and to the beneficiaries provided for in a bis of the same article under the conditions provid…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-64

…utorité des marchés financiers the transactions they intend to carry out pursuant to the provisions of article L. 22-10-62. This declaration is deemed to have been made when these companies have made…

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