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Showing 191200 of 65818 articles for Art. L 225-248 · Loi 2023-171 of 9 March 2023

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation without a public offer or with a public offer referred to in 1° or 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

Article L225-16

The first directors or members of the Supervisory Board are designated in the Articles of Association.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-102-4

I.-Any company which employs, at the close of two consecutive financial years, at least five thousand employees within itself and in its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is loca…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article L225-207

The General Meeting that has decided on a capital reduction not motivated by losses may authorise the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, to purchase a specific number of s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article L225-215

A pledge by the company of its own shares, directly or through a person acting in his own name but on behalf of the company, is prohibited.Shares pledged by the company must be returned to their owner…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article L225-216

A company may not advance funds, grant loans or give security with a view to the subscription or purchase of its own shares by a third party. The provisions of this article do not apply either to curr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-109

The chairman, chief executive officers, members of the management board of a company, natural persons or legal entities exercising in this company the functions of director or member of the supervisor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings product

Article L225-5

The procedures for applying this chapter shall be specified by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings product

Article L225-4

In addition to the cases mentioned in I of article L. 224-4, the rights constituted within the framework of the French sub-account of a pan-European individual retirement savings product may, at the r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings product

Article L225-1

Subject to the provisions of this chapter to the contrary, the French sub-account, within the meaning of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1238 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings product

Article L225-2

Payments into a French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings product which have given rise to the opening of a securities account are allocated to the acquisition of financial…

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