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

Article L234-3

…statutory auditors the requests for explanations made by the works council or the staff representatives, the reports sent to the board of directors or the supervisory board, as the case may be, as we…

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

Article L234-2

…ys. The reply must be sent to the works council or, where there is none, to the employee representatives and, if there is one, to the supervisory board. On receipt of the reply, or in the absence of a…

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

Article L234-1

…ent of the Commercial Court and to the Works Council or, in its absence, to the employee representatives. The statutory auditor may ask to be heard by the president of the court, in which case the sec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Transparency, restrictive competition practices and other prohibited practices.

Article L444-1 A

…re a matter of public policy. Any dispute relating to their application shall fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts, subject to compliance with European Union law and internation…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title IV: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L541-1

The following shall apply to the sworn agents of New Caledonia mentioned in Article 86 of Organic Law n° 99-209 of 19 March 1999 on New Caledonia, subject to the adaptations provided for in Articles L…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Production

Article 416

…roduction is traditional and customary:Vinified directly by the harvesting producers and made exclusively from their harvests of muscat, grenache, macabéo or malvoisie; however, harvests obtained from…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Property wealth tax

Article 974

…al to this same amount multiplied by the number of years elapsed since the payment of the loan and divided by the total number of years of the loan. The debts mentioned in the same I corresponding to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1473

…the rental value of the property located there (1).The business property tax due for replacement activities is assessed at the place of the main establishment mentioned by the interested parties on th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1475

…han 500 kilowatts are apportioned between the communes in whose territory the watercourses used or civil engineering works exist, taking into account the size of the latter, the possible existence of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1590

I. - An annual tax is introduced, proportional to the surface area of each exclusive licence to prospect for liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons. The tax shall be paid by the holder of the exclusive licenc…

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