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

Article R53-20

Where it has not been taken in the course of the investigation, enquiry or trial proceedings, the sample shall be taken, on the instructions of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor and in ac…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article R22-10-23

For an uninterrupted period beginning no later than the twenty-first day prior to the meeting, companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market shall publish the following informat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Non-voting preference shares.

Article R228-42

The special meeting ruling under the conditions provided for in Article L. 225-99 on matters submitted to it for approval or agreement and composed, where applicable, solely of the holders of non-voti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Société de gestion du fonds interprofessionnel de l'accès au droit et à la justice (Management company for the inter-professional fund for access to law and justice)

Article R444-37

The board of directors of the fund management company is made up of five directors appointed under the conditions set out in article L. 225-17, in accordance with the following procedures: 1° One dire…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Membership of company boards of directors or supervisory boards

Article R2312-32

Requests for inclusion on the agenda of the draft resolutions referred to in the second paragraph of Article L. 2312-77 are made as follows: 1° When all the shares of the company are in registered for…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies.

Article R233-15

Subject to providing proof in the schedule provided for in Article L. 123-12, the companies mentioned in 1° of Article L. 233-17 are exempt from the obligation to draw up consolidated accounts and a r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 1: Formation of the company.

Article R210-6

When a joint stock company is formed without a public offer, or by means of a public offer mentioned in 1° or 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or Article L. 411-2-1 of the sam…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Recognition of the professional qualifications of nationals of a Member State of the European Community or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R2223-134

I. - When an application for recognition of the professional qualifications provided for in article L. 2223-49, the Prefect shall acknowledge receipt of the applicant's file within one month of the re…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Formation by conversion of a société anonyme.

Article R229-20

The proposed conversion of the société anonyme, provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 225-245-1, is the subject of a notice inserted in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R251

I. - With the exception of articles R. 15-29 to R. 15-33-23, R. 15-33-43 and R. 15-33-59, R. 48-1, the I of article R. 49-8-3, articles R. 49-8-5 to R. 49-19, R. 53-51 to R. 53-56, R. 63, R. 64, R. 93…

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