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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Nature and representativeness of the association

Article R513-22

The association does not carry out the tasks of a professional trade union within the meaning of Book I of Part Two of the Labour Code and is not representative in this respect, whatever form it takes…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 2291-1

A sub-guarantee is a contract by which a person undertakes to pay the guarantor what the debtor may owe him under the guarantee..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Some specific time limits and starting points.

Article 2226-1

…s Book shall be barred after ten years from the day on which the holder of the action knew or ought to have known of the manifestation of the ecological damage.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title I: Personal sureties

Article 2287-1

The personal sureties governed by this title are surety bonds, autonomous guarantees and letters of intent.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation at national level

Article R1114-22

The Board of Directors prepares the annual budget and the strategy for running the national network of approved associations of users of the healthcare system, which are submitted to the General Meeti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-222

…irst names, the address of the legal unit with an indication, where applicable, that it corresponds to the address of the natural person's personal residence, the sex, nationality, date and place of b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-221

The identification number allocated to each legal unit is a serial number consisting of nine digits.The identification number allocated to each establishment consists of the nine digits of the identif…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-223

…nd each of its establishments, the code characterising the main activity carried out with reference to the French nomenclature of activities in force, allocated by the Institut national de la statisti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-226

When the validations mentioned in sub-section 2 of section 4 of this chapter result in changes to the identification information listed in article R. 123-222, this information is sent to the National…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Discipline of sworn merchandise brokers

Article R131-22

…ency of the situation, the president of the judicial court may, at the request of the public prosecutor, temporarily suspend a sworn goods broker where the latter is the subject of criminal or discipl…

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