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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-74

The Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Management Board shall acknowledge receipt of requests to include items or draft resolutions on the agenda, by registered letter, within five days of such…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-80

Instructions given by electronic means under the conditions defined in Article R. 225-61 involving a proxy or power of attorney may validly reach the company up to 3 p.m., Paris time, on the day befor…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article A225-3

I. - In order to issue its reasoned opinion referred to in a of II of Article R. 225-105-2, the independent third-party body shall ensure that the company has put in place collection processes to ensu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Capital amortisation.

Article R225-149

Fully or partially amortised shares whose conversion into capital shares has been decided are entitled, for each financial year, and until such conversion is completed, to the first dividend or intere…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-71

A request for items or draft resolutions to be included on the agenda of the meeting, by shareholders representing at least 5% of the share capital, shall be sent to the registered office by registere…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-67

The notice of meeting shall be inserted in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements in the département of the registered office and, in addition, if all the shares of the company are not in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-66

The notice of meeting shall include the company name, possibly followed by its acronym, the form of the company, the amount of share capital, the address of the registered office, the information prov…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article R225-120

When an issue of new shares or securities giving access to the capital is likely to result in a capital increase, shareholders are informed of this issue and its terms and conditions by a notice conta…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article R225-115

When the General Meeting itself determines all the terms and conditions of the capital increase with cancellation of preferential subscription rights, the report referred to in Article R. 225-114 shal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-105

I.-The extra-financial performance statement referred to in I of Article L. 225-102-1 and the consolidated non-financial performance statement mentioned in II of the same article present the business…

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