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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 239 bis AA

…ited liability companies carrying on an industrial, commercial, craft or agricultural activity, and formed solely between persons related in the direct line or between brothers and sisters, as well as…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Separation as to property.

Article 1542

…the division of undivided property between spouses separated by property, in all that concerns its forms, the maintenance of the indivision and the preferential allocation, the licitation of the prop…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Citations and meanings

Article 563

In all cases, the bailiff must mention on the original of the writ, and in the form of a report, his diligence as well as the responses that have been made to his various interpellations.The public pr…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article A322-101

…services. A VHF is necessary when the dive takes place at sea from a dive support boat;-evacuation forms according to the standard model in appendix III-19.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibition on proprietary trading

Article L420-2

The manager of a trading platform does not commit its own capital or trade by matching with its own account on the platforms it manages. Proprietary trading is a form of trading in which a person, the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Company accounts and accounting documents

Article L511-36

When they prepare their accounts in consolidated form, credit institutions and finance companies do so in accordance with the rules defined by a regulation of the Autorité des normes comptables (Frenc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-12-5

…s, other than asset management companies, shall ensure that they do not remunerate or assess the performance of their employees in a way that undermines their duty to act in the best interests of thei…

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

Article L561-10-1

…rticle L. 561-2 shall implement the provisions of Articles L. 561-5, L. 561-5-1 and L. 561-6 in the form of enhanced due diligence measures. II. - The implementation of the additional vigilance measur…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Information provided at the time of implementation

Article L2312-57

…mittee, the employer provides it with economic and financial documentation specifying: 1° The legal form of the company and its organisation; 2° The company's economic prospects as they may be envisag…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Mediation procedure.

Article L2523-5

After attempting, where necessary, to reconcile the parties, the mediator submits to them, in the form of a reasoned recommendation, proposals for the settlement of the points in dispute, within one m…

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