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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Investigations

Article R232-86-2

The investigators may summon and interview any person likely to be able to provide them with information. They shall present their authorisation to conduct the investigation in response to any request…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Loans, profit participation certificates and mutualist certificates.

Article R322-80-2

The maximum proportion of the profits of the last financial year and previous financial years that may be allocated annually to the remuneration of mutualist certificates is equal to 10% of the sum of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article R*326-2

The decree referred to in article L. 326-12 is issued on the report of the Minister for the Economy and Finance and the Minister for Transport.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Governance system

Article R354-2-4

Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings use external credit assessments for the calculation of prudential technical provisions and the Solvency Capital Requirement, they shall, as part of their r…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Investment transactions.

Article R442-9-2

Political risk arises when the investor's property rights or those attaching thereto, or the special rights and advantages granted to him by the authorities of the country in which the investment was…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4a: Supervision of the practice of the profession

Article R422-55-2

Any natural or legal person practising the profession of industrial property attorney is subject to checks by the Compagnie nationale des conseils en propriété industrielle concerning compliance with…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article R223-20-3

A request for items or draft resolutions to be included on the agenda of the meeting by one or more shareholders holding at least one-twentieth of the shares on the day the request is sent must be sen…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-61-2

This notice shall specify the nature of the meeting and include the items and the text of the draft resolutions that the company intends to include on the agenda of the meeting. The notice shall also…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Procedures for the performance of judicial police duties by authorised customs officers

Article R15-33-22

When executing a letter rogatory or acting under the flagrante delicto procedure, authorised customs officers shall draw up separate procès-verbaux for each of the acts they are called upon to perform…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Procedures for the performance of judicial police duties by authorised customs officers

Article R15-33-21

When acting in the context of a preliminary investigation, authorised customs officers may relate in a single report the various operations carried out in the course of the same investigation. If seve…

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