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Paragraph 7: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R123-163

The fees, emoluments and costs relating to the formalities carried out pursuant to this section shall be borne by the applicants.In addition to their emoluments regulated by Articles R. 743-140 et seq…

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Paragraph 2: Automatic registrations

Article R123-294

Any automatic entry in the National Register of Companies is made by the keeper of the register either on its own initiative or on the basis of a declaration or filing made by the authorised authoriti…

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Sub-subparagraph 1: Declarations for registration purposes

Article A123-17

The associations mentioned in article A. 123-16 declare, in addition, in their application for registration the surname, usual name, pseudonym, forenames, personal domicile, date and place of birth an…

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Subsection 3: Unique company identification number.

Article D123-235

…required of a company in its dealings with the administrations, persons or bodies listed in Article L. 123-32 is the identity number assigned to it when it is entered in the register of companies and…

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Subsection 4: General provisions

Article D123-321

The amounts of the fees payable pursuant to Article L. 123-54 are set, for each formality, by the tables in Appendix 1-4 of this book. No fee is payable in the event of amendments made by the keeper o…

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Sub-sub-paragraph 3: Declarations for the purposes of and supplementary registrations

Article A123-23

…on provided for in the second paragraph of Article R. 123-67, the associations mentioned in article L. 213-8 of the Monetary and Financial Code and which are registered in the Trade and Companies Regi…

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Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-227

…0, and in the event of death, a final decision to deregister, pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 613-4 of the Social Security Code, of the social security scheme to which it was affiliated or up…

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Subsection 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article A123-80-4

…red, accompanied, for those benefiting from the exemption from registration provided for in article L. 123-1-1 of the French Commercial Code or by V of the article 19 of law no. 96-603 of 5 July 1996…

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Sub-subparagraph 1: Declarations for registration purposes.

Article R123-38

…establishment, the address of the business fixed to the residential premises declared under Article L. 123-10 and, for nationals of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the E…

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Sub-subparagraph 1: Declarations for registration purposes

Article R123-252

…icable, either that use has been made of the option available under the second paragraph of article L. 123-11-1 or, in the case of premises occupied jointly with one or more other companies, the exist…

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