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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 160 bis

Sums allocated to shareholders of open-ended investment companies and open-ended real estate investment companies mentioned in 3° nonies of the article 208 for the repurchase of their shares are not c…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema exhibition account

Article 232-9

…d in the automatic cinema operating accounts grouped into circuits are invested to finance work and investments contributing to:1° The modernisation of a cinema provided that it is integrated into thi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Retirement savings plans

Article R224-8

Leave days invested in the company pension savings plan at the request of the employee are invested for the value of the leave allowance calculated in accordance with the provisions of Articles L. 314…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Cash and cash equivalents

Article R6332-28

…and cash accounts, as defined in the chart of accounts provided for in article R. 6332-35. However, investments are valued at their net asset value.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-3

The number of members of a société à responsabilité limitée may not exceed one hundred. If the company comes to include more than one hundred members, it is dissolved after a period of one year unless…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L235-2

In sociétés en nom collectif and en commandite simple, completion of the publication formalities is required on pain of nullity of the company, the deed or the deliberation, as the case may be, withou…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to all companies

Article R822-60

The insurance obligation provided for in article R. 822-36 is applicable to sociétés de commissaires aux comptes, without prejudice to the obligation of partners or shareholders to take out insurance…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-16

…oup of an undertaking referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 356-8 which holds, through a société de groupe d'assurance, a union mutualiste de groupe, a société de groupe assurantiel de prot…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations to be made by legal entities

Article R123-71

…from the registrar who made the corresponding amending entry;3° Updating, in the registration of a société anonyme, a société en commandite par actions, a société à responsabilité limitée or a sociét…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special schemes and general exemptions

Article 1051

…1° Les transferts de biens de toute nature opérés entre organismes d'habitations à loyer modéré, sociétés anonymes de crédit immobilier ou leurs unions et organismes bénéficiant de l'agrément menti…

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