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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-66

The notice of meeting shall include the company name, possibly followed by its acronym, the form of the company, the amount of share capital, the address of the registered office, the information prov…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Operation

Article L7122-20

…ng of the Assembly of French Guyana, the President shall send the councillors a report, in whatever form, on each of the matters that must be submitted to them.The projects on which the Economic, Soci…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial securities.

Article D211-9-5

…smit a shareholder's vote or proxy for a meeting of an undertaking for collective investment in the form of a company. Before transmitting a shareholder's proxy or vote at a general meeting, the regis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Undeclared work.

Article L8271-9

…officers may ask to see and obtain immediate copies of the following documents, regardless of their form or medium: 1° Documents proving that the registration, declarations and formalities referred to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for authorising laboratories

Article R1131-18

…s the name of any new approved practitioner prior to taking up their post. It is also required to inform the Regional Health Agency and the Agence de la biomédecine of the cessation of activity of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: The institution and its missions

Article R741-5

…sponsible may be disseminated electronically under the conditions set out in this article: a) The information is disseminated directly by the competent registry. However, the registrars may join toget…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the official statement of offence, the notice of offence and the payment card for forfeited offences

Article A37-13

…intercepting the vehicle and using an automated control system recording the data digitally, the information required by Articles A. 37-9 and A. 37-11 relating to the notice of offence appear on the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The decision or opinion of the departmental committee.

Article R752-6-2

I.-The application form for authorisation can be obtained from the prefecture or on the prefecture websites. Its content conforms to a model laid down by order of the Minister for the Economy. I.-The…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sale and transfer of shares.

Article R4113-51

…riod of six months from the date of notification of its refusal to notify the member, in one of the forms provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 4113-50, of a proposed transfer or repurchas…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-54

…riod of six months from the date of notification of its refusal to notify the member, in one of the forms provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 4381-53, of the proposed transfer or repurch…

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