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Showing 511520 of 57385 articles for Art. L 641-3 · Cass. com. 20 March 2019 n° 17-20.629

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Provisions specific to securitisation companies

Article L214-177

When the articles of association of the securitisation company provide for the use of forward financial instruments to expose the company, or for the sale of receivables that are not due or for which…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Stock options.

Article L225-179

The Extraordinary General Meeting may also authorise the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, to grant to some or all of the company's salaried employees, options giving ent…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Provisions specific to securitisation companies

Article L214-179

I. - Where the securitisation company is incorporated as a société anonyme, notwithstanding Titles II and III of Book II of the French Commercial Code :1° The ordinary general meeting may be held with…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-17

Bodies that are managed by a majority of employees' trade union organisations and employers' professional organisations that appear on the list referred to in 2° of I of article L. 2135-10 and whose B…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Implementing provisions.

Article L1271-17

Decrees determine the terms and conditions of use and operation of the universal employment-service voucher, in particular : 1° Those relating to the collection and reimbursement of universal employme…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Compulsory powers.

Article L5215-20-1

I. - Urban communities existing on the date of promulgation of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale continue to exercis…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of mandates at the Assembly of French Guyana

Article L7125-17

Councillors to the Assembly of French Guyana shall receive, for the actual performance of their duties, an allowance fixed by reference to the amount of the salary corresponding to the terminal gross…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases

Article L242-17

The chairman, directors or managing directors of a public limited company are liable to a fine of €150,000, issue shares or share denominations without the previously subscribed capital of the company…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Schools of territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L711-17

Consular higher education establishments are legal entities under private law governed by the legislative provisions applicable to public limited companies, insofar as they do not conflict with the sp…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Stock options.

Article L225-177

The Extraordinary General Meeting, acting on the report of the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, and on the special report of the Statutory Auditors, if any, may authoris…

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