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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors and General Management.

Article R225-30

The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall notify the Statutory Auditors of the agreements and commitments authorised and entered into pursuant to Article L. 225-38 , within one month of entering in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Cross-border transactions

Article R236-30

I.-The audit provided for in Article L. 236-42 shall be carried out within three months of receipt of the copy of the minutes of the meeting referred to in Article L. 236-9 or, in the absence of a mee…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title IV: Clearing houses

Article D440-3

The bodies or undertakings referred to in Article 7 of L. 440-2 meet the following conditions:they do not offer clearing services on behalf of third parties; -they belong to one of the following categ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Register of security interests and other related transactions

Article R521-32

For the consultation, the applicant shall indicate the following: 1° Concerning the owner of the property referred to in 5° of article R. 521-6 or, in the absence of property, the debtor: a) If it con…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Prohibition on entering or being in the vicinity of a venue where a sporting event is taking place

Article R332-3

When the decision to impose the additional penalty provided for in article L. 332-11, which is not final but has been provisionally enforced, is overturned by the Court of Appeal, when the person conv…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Compensation procedures.

Article R211-35

When the victim lives overseas or abroad, the time limits set by articles R. 211-31 and R. 211-32 are extended by one month. The time limit given to the insurer to make an offer of compensation is ext…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the preparation, assessment and implementation of preventive recovery plans

Article R311-3

Persons required to draw up a preventive recovery plan shall inform the supervisory board as soon as possible if, in implementing the plan, they adopt a recovery measure provided for therein. They sha…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority

Article R331-3

No agent may be authorised:-if he has been convicted of a criminal or penal offence entered in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record, or in an equivalent document in the case of a national of the Euro…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: DETENTION BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY

Article R741-3

The matter shall be referred to the liberties and detention judge by the foreign national challenging the legality of the decision to place him or her in administrative detention by simple petition, u…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Preventing business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures.

Article R611-39

In application of I of article L. 611-8, the agreement of the parties is recorded by an order of the president of the court, who has the executory clause affixed to it by the court clerk. The debtor's…

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