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Showing 21012110 of 55421 articles for Art. Law 2010-788 of 12 July 2010

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-12

This section shall not apply: 1° In the event of the sale of the shareholding to a spouse, ascendant or descendant; 2° To companies that are the subject of conciliation, safeguard, receivership or liq…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other provisions

Article L632-12-1

Notwithstanding the provisions of Law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L641-12-1

If the debtor is the settlor and sole beneficiary of a trust contract, the opening or pronouncement of a judicial liquidation in respect of the debtor automatically terminates the trust contract and r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-2

I.-For the purposes mentioned in 9° of I of Article L. 821-1, the High Council shall, at their request, communicate the information or documents that it holds or that it collects to the authorities of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-4

…e purposes mentioned in the two preceding articles, the High Council is exempt from the application of the provisions of loi n° 68-678 du 26 juillet 1968 relative à la communication de documents et re…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-5

…dentiel et de résolution, the Autorité de la concurrence, the Banque de France, the European System of Central Banks, the European Central Bank and the European Systemic Risk Board, where such informa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-3

For the purposes mentioned in 9° of I of Article L. 821-1, the High Council may communicate information or documents to the authorities of non-EU Member States exercising powers similar to its own, su…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-1

…the controls provided for in Article L. 821-9 inform the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duration of the contract.

Article L6222-12-1

By way of derogation from article L. 6222-12, any person aged between sixteen and twenty-nine, or who is at least fifteen and can prove that they have completed the first cycle of secondary education,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Deposits to be made by companies having their registered office abroad

Article R123-120-1

Where the company has its registered office in one of the Member States of the European Community or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the deeds and documents may, at its request…

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