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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-29

A joint stock company may not own shares in another company, if the latter holds a fraction of its capital greater than 10%. Failing agreement between the companies concerned to regularise the situati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-30

…it comes to hold any, it must dispose of them within the period set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat and it may not, on their account, exercise voting rights. If a company other than a société par acti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-32

…owers expressly granted to General Meetings within the limits of the company's corporate interests. II. - Without prejudice to other measures permitted by law, the Extraordinary General Meeting of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-40

…shall inform the Autorité des marchés financiers, which shall make this decision public. The terms and conditions for the application of this article are set out in the General Regulations of the Aut…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-31

Where shares or voting rights in a company are owned by one or more companies which it directly or indirectly controls, the voting rights attached to those shares or voting rights may not be exercised…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-37

The articles of association of a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market may provide that the effects of restrictions in the articles of association on the exercise of votin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-34

Except where they result from a legislative obligation, clauses in the articles of association of a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market providing for restrictions in the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-38

…s in the articles of association on the exercise of voting rights attached to shares in the company and the effects of any clause in an agreement entered into after 21 April 2004 providing for restric…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Sharing.

Article 1358

The qualified person appointed pursuant to article 837 of the Civil Code to represent the defaulting heir applies for authorisation to consent to the amicable partition by transmitting the draft parti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies.

Article R233-18

The periods provided for in the second and fourth paragraphs of Article L. 233-30 are one year from the date on which the shares that the company is obliged to dispose of entered its assets.

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