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Showing 39013910 of 6436 articles for Art. Option exercise gain/loss formulas

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-46

…are met throughout the transaction: a) The undertaking holds or will receive before the maturity or exercise date of the instrument an amount of cash at least equal to the notional amount of the instr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to compensation for personal injury.

Article R421-16

Without prejudice to the exercise resulting from the legal subrogation of the guarantee fund in the rights which the creditor of the compensation has against the tortfeasor or the insurer, the guarant…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the seller of furniture, claims and restitutions.

Article L624-16

…riting governing a set of commercial transactions agreed between the parties. Claims in kind may be exercised under the same conditions in respect of movable property incorporated into another propert…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article L824-15

I.-The General Rapporteur shall, at their request, communicate the information or documents that he holds or that he collects to the authorities of the Member States of the European Union exercising c…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-10

…with a statutory auditor or a certified public accountant ;3° With any commercial activity, whether exercised directly or through an intermediary, with the exception of, on the one hand, commercial ac…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Lyon Metropolitan Area

Article L3641-4

…he Rhône-Alpes region, at the request of the latter or the Lyon metropolitan area, the latter shall exercise within its territory, in place of the region, the powers defined in 2° of Article L. 4221-1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Organisation and operation

Article L5721-9

…thorities may be made available in whole or in part to its member authorities or groupings, for the exercise of their powers. An agreement concluded between the union and the local authorities or grou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-15

…679 of 27 April 2016 and in Articles 104 and 105 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978 may be exercised by contacting the Head of the National Forensic Science Service of the Ministry of the Int…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Staff reports and monitoring of the judicial activities of judicial police officers (Provisions adopted for the application of articles 13, 16, 19-1, 224 to 230 and R. 14 to R. 15-6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)

Article D44

…and for the entire jurisdiction, of each of the civil servants and military personnel authorised to exercise the attributions attached to the status of judicial police officer is kept permanently at t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L8256-3

…o five years, from engaging directly or through an intermediary in the professional activity in the exercise or on the occasion of the exercise of which the offence was committed, in accordance with t…

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