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Showing 63616370 of 60433 articles for Art. Loi 86-18 du 6-1-1986

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-6-3

…reached by the convening notices, for ten completed years, may be sold in accordance with the procedure set out in Article L. 228-6. This sale takes place at the end of a period set by decree in the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Powers of the Regional Council

Article L4433-4-6

The regional cooperation funds set up respectively for Guadeloupe, La Réunion and Mayotte are funded by State appropriations and may receive allocations from the département, the region, any other pub…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Recording data in the directory

Article R53-21-6

…ned processing, and the manager have direct and permanent access to the processing as part of their duties.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of masseur-physiotherapists

Article R4321-67-2

…ty to the public, in particular on a website, are required to inform the public of the list of procedures they are authorised to perform. As part of their practice, these professionals must clearly in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Cooperation and exchange of information with European supervisory and resolution authorities

Article L632-6-3

…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 legal persons, the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
18°: Parent companies

Article 145

…ditions for the application of this Article and Article 216 of this Code relating to the nature and duration of custody of the securities and the rights held and which, are subject to professional obl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-69

…falling within one of the categories referred to in Article R. 15-33-68 shall be subject to a procedure laid down in the protocol provided for in Article R. 15-33-72. This provides that the informati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-67

…les 60-2, 77-1-2 and 99-4 allowing requests to be made for data to be made available electronically during the flagrante delicto investigation, preliminary investigation or pre-trial investigation are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions applicable before the Assize Court

Article D47-37-6

If the assize court answers in the affirmative to the question provided for in Article D. 47-37-5, it must then rule on the following question: "Has the accused materially committed the act of which h…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The application for a business licence.

Article R752-6-2

I.-The application form for authorisation can be obtained from the prefecture or on the prefecture websites. Its content conforms to a model laid down by order of the Minister for the Economy. I.-The…

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