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Showing 561570 of 62190 articles for Art. R. 123-54 and R. 123-103 · C. civ. Art. 1857

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting obligations applicable to all traders.

Article L123-16-2

The provisions of articles L. 123-16 and L. 123-16-1 are not applicable:1° To the credit institutions and finance companies mentioned in Article L. 511-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code and to the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Administrative formalities for companies

Article L123-34

…s business papers such as invoices, order notes, price lists, advertising documents, correspondence and receipts concerning its activities.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Validation and controls carried out by the departmental or multidepartmental mutual benefit funds for agriculture (caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité sociale agricole)

Article L123-49

A person who has fully complied with the validations and checks carried out pursuant to article L. 123-48 is registered in the national register of companies as a "company run by a farm worker", witho…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-6

…whom there is no final judgment of legal separation, benefits, regardless of the matrimonial regime and independently of the rights he/she derives from the articles 756 to 757-3 and 764 to 766 of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Administrative formalities for companies

Article L123-32

This section applies to relations between, on the one hand, companies and, on the other hand, State administrations, public administrative establishments of the State, local authorities, their groupin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting obligations applicable to all traders.

Article L123-16-1

…micro-businesses, with the exception of those whose business consists of managing equity interests and securities, are not required to draw up a schedule. Micro-enterprises within the meaning of this…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article A123-80-3

…ar chamber or his representative. It includes the following information: 1° The holder's birth name and, where applicable, surname, first names, date and place of birth, nationality, home address; 2°…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article A123-80-2

…n declaration submitted to the business formalities centre run by a territorial chamber of commerce and industry or by a chamber of trades and crafts, submission of the business declaration and its su…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-7

…ath of the author, the resale right referred to in article L. 122-8 subsists in favour of his heirs and, for the usufruct provided for in Article L. 123-6, his spouse, during the current calendar year…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-36

…ticle L. 123-1 ; 2° The commercial agents referred to in article L. 134-1; 3° Persons in the trades and crafts sector mentioned in the article 19 de la loi n° 96-603 du 5 juillet 1996 relative au déve…

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