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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Investments

Article R385-6

The balance sheet value of all securities issued, receivables other than those referred to in article R. 385-11, loans and securities not traded on a regulated market within the meaning of 11° of arti…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions specific to the intervention of a third party authorised to receive payment requests

Article R2192-21

The contract includes stipulations on the penalties incurred as a result of failure to comply with the time limit mentioned in article R. 2192-19 or the obligation provided for in article R. 2192-20,…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Inventions by natural persons who are not employees or public servants, hosted by a legal person carrying out research

Article R611-22

Inventions whose author is an inventor covered by article L. 611-7-1, hosted by a legal entity carrying out research in which, at the date of the invention declaration, more than half of the permanent…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Reduction of capital.

Article R225-150

At least fifteen days before the General Meeting called to vote on the proposed transaction pursuant to Articles L. 225-204 or L. 22-10-62, the company shall send to the shareholders or make available…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Banknotes.

Article R122-9

Cash changers who use self-service exchange machines feed them with euro notes taken directly from a credit institution, La Poste, an electronic money institution or a payment institution. For this pu…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Formation, registration and commencement of business of the company.

Article R743-34

Where a company is formed between the clerks of commercial courts that have been abolished and replaced by a court whose jurisdiction includes all the jurisdictions of the abolished courts, that compa…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Data processing carried out by the Agence de la biomédecine

Article R2143-14

The data mentioned in article R. 2143-11 are kept by the Agence de la biomédecine for a period of one hundred and twenty years from the date of their registration in the processing. By way of derogati…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Bodies authorised to grant and manage advances

Article R5141-22

The Prefect may appoint organisations, the list of which he determines by order, to grant and manage the repayable advance referred to in 2° of article R. 5141-1. Where the business creator's applicat…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Education, re-education and vocational training centres

Article R5213-13

Requests for subsidies submitted by collective rehabilitation, re-education or vocational training centres or by companies in charge of their centres receiving disabled workers under the conditions se…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Local conciliation commission.

Article R6142-21

The procedure defined in articles R. 6142-19 and R. 6142-20 is applicable in the event of difficulties arising at the time of renewal of the agreement in the event of its termination by one of the con…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
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