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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-42

The mandate of a permanent representative appointed by a legal entity appointed to the Supervisory Board is given for the duration of the latter's term of office. If the legal entity revokes the manda…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-52

…sory Board members in office, and of their presence or representation at a meeting of the Board, shall be provided by producing a copy or extract of the minutes.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-56

The Supervisory Board may confer on one or more of its members any special mandates for one or more specific purposes. It may decide to set up committees from among its members, the composition and po…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-45

The company's articles of association shall determine the rules relating to the convening and deliberations of the supervisory board. However, the chairman of the supervisory board shall convene the b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-49

The deliberations of the supervisory board are recorded in minutes drawn up in a special register kept at the registered office and listed and initialled either by a judge of the commercial court, a j…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-43

…the permanent representative and the termination of his term of office are subject to the same disclosure formalities as if he were a member of the Supervisory Board in his own name.

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Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-96

The General Meeting may only deliberate after the end of the special meeting of holders of non-voting preference shares provided for in articles R. 228-40 to R. 228-48 when the latter may adopt an opi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-39

Unless otherwise stipulated in the Articles of Association, the members of the Management Board may, with the authorisation of the Supervisory Board, divide the duties of management among themselves.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-51

Copies or extracts of the minutes of the deliberations are certified by the chairman of the supervisory board, the vice-chairman of the supervisory board, a member of the management board or a proxy a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-61-2

This notice shall specify the nature of the meeting and include the items and the text of the draft resolutions that the company intends to include on the agenda of the meeting. The notice shall also…

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