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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6b: SME Innovation Account

Article L221-32-5

I. - The holder of an SME innovation account defined in article L. 221-32-4 may deposit in this account units or shares in a company subject to corporation tax that it has acquired or subscribed to ou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Local investment funds

Article L214-32-1

Each year, before 30 April of the following year, local investment funds send the Autorité des marchés financiers a summary statement of the companies financed, the securities held and the amounts inv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article L613-32-1

I. - The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may ask the authority responsible for the supervision of a group on a consolidated basis or the competent authorities within the meaning of Ar…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Distillation sites

Article 320

The following are considered to be cooperative associations: groupings of owners, farmers and sharecroppers united in professional syndicates or cooperative distillation associations, which deposit th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R*3231-2-1

For the application of article L. 3231-8, the ratio of the reference index measuring changes in the basic hourly wage of manual and clerical workers to the price index mentioned in article R. * 3231-2…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage

Article 326

During childbirth, the mother may request that her admission and identity be kept secret.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage

Article 325

In the absence of a title and possession of status, the maternity search is admitted.The action is reserved for the child who is required to prove that he is the one from whom the alleged mother gave…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage

Article 328

The parent, even if a minor, in respect of whom filiation is established has, during the minority of the child, sole standing to bring an action to establish maternity or paternity. If no parent-child…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage

Article 327

Paternity outside marriage may be judicially declared. The action to establish paternity is reserved for the child.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage

Article 329

Where the presumption of paternity has been set aside pursuant to Article 313, each of the spouses may request, during the child's minority, that its effects be re-established by proving that the husb…

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