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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Capital increases

Article L22-10-54

The provisions of articles L. 225-147 and L. 22-10-53 are not applicable in the event that a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market carries out a capital increase as consid…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IX: The European Company

Article L229-10

Any European Company may convert into a public limited company if, at the time of the conversion, it has been registered for more than two years and has had the balance sheet for its first two financi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 209 quater

1. Capital gains subject to tax at the reduced rate provided for in a of I of article 219, reduced by the amount of this tax, are transferred to a special reserve. The entry to this special reserve ce…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216 A

When they are not deductible from the taxable income of a creditor company, debt waivers granted by the latter to another company in which it has a holding within the meaning of article 145 are not ta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Operation

Article L2121-22-1

In municipalities with a population of 20,000 or more, the municipal council, at the request of one-sixth of its members, deliberates on the creation of an information and assessment mission, tasked w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Cooperation between Asset Recovery Offices of the Member States in tracing and identifying the proceeds of crime or other crime-related property pursuant to Council Decision 2007/845/JHA of 6 December 2007

Article 695-9-50

For the application of Council Decision 2007/845/JHA of 6 December 2007 on cooperation between Asset Recovery Offices of the Member States in tracing and identifying the proceeds of crime or other pro…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Nature of the continuous assessment of knowledge leading to the brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif à trois degrés (three-degree state diploma for sports instructors) during training under the responsibility of the Minister for Sport

Article A212-135

The training adviser is appointed by the Regional Director of Youth, Sport and the Voluntary Sector after consultation with the persons mentioned in article A. 212-136. He or she must hold at least a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-2

I. - The penalties provided for in A of I of Article L. 465-1 shall apply if any of the persons referred to in the same Article L. 465-1 recommends that one or more transactions be carried out on the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the Order.

Article L4232-2

Each of these sections is administered by a central council, the head office of which is in Paris, composed of appointed members and elected members, in accordance with the procedures laid down in thi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The National Advisory Commission on Natural Disasters

Article D125-2

The role of the National Advisory Commission on Natural Disasters provided for in I of article L. 125-1-1 is to issue an annual opinion on: 1° The relevance of the criteria used to determine recogniti…

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