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Showing 311320 of 55426 articles for Art. Loi 2023-1059 of 20 November 2023 – justice programming law

French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Classification of offices.

Article D133-20

The tourist offices referred to in articles L. 133-1 to L. 133-10-1 and L. 134-5 may be classified by category according to the level of facilities and services guaranteed to the public on the basis o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-204

…tion is authorised or decided by the Extraordinary General Meeting, which may delegate to the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, all powers to carry it out. Under no circu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-205

When the meeting approves a proposed capital reduction not motivated by losses, the representative of the bondholders' group and the creditors whose claims predate the date on which the minutes of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of negotiations

Article L2312-20

…carried out at group works council level. It lays down the procedures for transmitting the opinion of the group works council: 1° To each social and economic committee of the group, which remains con…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination of applications

Article R3123-20

…that documents or information are missing which must be produced in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 3123-1 to R. 3123-8 and articles R. 3123-16 to R. 3123-19 may ask the applicants conc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

Article L654-20

Sentencing judgments and rulings issued pursuant to this chapter shall be published at the expense of the convicted person.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article R612-20

The abstract shall be drawn up exclusively for the purposes of technical information. It may not be taken into consideration for any other purpose, in particular to assess the scope of the protection…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Personal recovery procedure with compulsory liquidation

Article L742-20

…th judicial liquidation that the debtor is clearly in the situation defined in the second paragraph of Article L. 742-21, the judge may open and close the personal recovery procedure with judicial liq…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts.

Article R232-20

As soon as the filing provided for in

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Allocation of seats

Article R2314-20

…have been filled or where seats remain to be filled, the remaining seats are allocated on the basis of the highest average. To this end, the number of votes obtained by each list is divided by the num…

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