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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-1-1-1

…insurance and reinsurance companies referred to in Articles L. 310-1 and L. 310-1-1 which take the form of a société anonyme and whose balance sheet total or turnover and number of employees exceed,…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 211-3

…as the majority of their directors, who are French nationals or equivalent;3° Be established in the form of a commercial company with share capital of at least €45,000 and including a minimum fully pa…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Quasi-regulation

Article L2511-2

…blic contract is awarded does not have a direct private equity holding, with the exception of those forms of private equity holding without the capacity to control or block required by law which do no…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article L226-1

A société en commandite par actions, the capital of which is divided into shares, is formed between one or more general partners, who have the status of business persons and are indefinitely and joint…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article L228-6

…d'Etat, the equity securities that could not be allocated individually and corresponding to rights forming fractional shares, provided that they have advertised at least one year in advance in accord…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Semiconductor products

Article L622-7

…615-7, L. 615-7-1, L. 615-8, L. 615-8-1, L. 615-10 and L. 615-17 shall apply to the conditions and forms in which:-decisions of the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property referred…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents and European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-12

…n.If the grounds for invalidity affect the patent only in part, invalidity shall be declared in the form of a corresponding limitation of the claims.In an action for invalidity of the European patent,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Income tax

Article 204 A

…in which the taxpayer disposes of them or they are realised, to a levy. 2. The deduction takes the form: 1° For the income mentioned in article 204 B, of a deduction at source made by the debtor when…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Preferential allocations.

Article 831

…icultural, commercial, industrial, craft or liberal, or undivided share of such a business, even if formed for a share of property of which he was already the owner or co-owner before the death, in th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 922

The reduction is determined by forming a mass of all the assets existing at the death of the donor or testator. Assets disposed of by donation inter vivos are fictitiously joined to this mass, accordi…

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