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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 696-47

The sending of detained individuals, with a view to a confrontation, must be requested in the forms provided for in articles 696-8 and 696-9. The request shall be granted, unless special consideration…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Compensatory benefits.

Article 276

…health of the creditor does not allow him to support himself, fix the compensatory allowance in the form of a life annuity. It shall take into consideration the assessment factors set out in article 2…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L231-1

It may be stipulated in the articles of companies which do not have the form of a société anonyme and in any cooperative company that the registered capital may be increased by successive payments by…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IX: Special arrangements applicable to taxable persons supplying services to non-taxable persons or carrying out distance sales of goods or certain domestic supplies of goods

Article 298 sexdecies H

…le person taking advantage of this special scheme, or an intermediary acting on his behalf, shall inform the administration when he commences his activity under this special scheme, ceases it or modif…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Provisions applicable to categories of securities being phased out.

Article R228-41

The special meeting is convened in the same manner as the general meeting and is held on the same day. The Board or the Management Board shall present a report to it on the resolutions submitted to th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Trial courts

Article 918

For the application of article 264, a special list of ten alternate jurors is drawn up each year, outside the annual jury list and under the same conditions.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Provisions applicable to categories of securities being phased out.

Article R228-33

…special meeting of holders of investment certificates is convened at the same time and in the same forms as the general meeting of shareholders which decides on the capital increase or the issue of s…

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

Article R442-10-9

…e is a French supplier, 80% of the loss suffered on the sums that it proves to have paid for the performance of its contract; 3° Its duration may not exceed that of the financial commitments granted b…

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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 R442-10-7

…d non-payment risks.The political risk is realised when the debtor has not paid his debt, or the performance of the contract has been interrupted, provided that the non-payment or the interruption of…

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