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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article R225-139

Without prejudice to the provisions of the first paragraph of article R. 228-91, when a company carries out a capital increase by capitalising reserves, profits or share premium and distributing bonus…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article R225-123

The bare owner of shares is deemed, vis-à-vis the beneficial owner, to have neglected to exercise the preferential right to subscribe for new shares issued by the company when he has neither subscribe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-90

In application of the provisions of article L. 225-116, shareholders have the right, during the fifteen-day period prior to the General Meeting, to inspect or copy, at the locations provided for in Ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-29

I. - A UCITS may not borrow.It may, however, acquire currencies by means of cross-currency loans.II. - By way of derogation from I, a UCITS may borrow provided that such borrowings :1° Are used on a t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article R511-16-3

Each of the persons who effectively directs the business of the credit institution or finance company within the meaning of Article L. 511-13 and each member of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Mutual and cooperative banks.

Article R512-21

The Confédération nationale du crédit mutuel draws up and keeps up to date the list of caisses, credit institutions and finance companies affiliated to it. The Board of Directors of the Confédération…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of good conduct.

Article D533-15-2

For the purposes of II of Article L. 533-15, the following conditions must be met:1° The client has agreed to receive the suitability statement without undue delay after the conclusion of the transact…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Establishment and purpose

Article D2372-2

The directors of the participating companies shall inform their trade union organisations, their subsidiaries and their establishments that have representatives or elected representatives of: 1° The n…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks

Article R3262-37

To enable the commission to carry out the control mission provided for in 8° of article R. 3262-36, each company or undertaking issuing meal vouchers must send the commission secretariat the annual re…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Calculation of the special profit-sharing reserve.

Article R3324-7

In companies subject to income tax, the tax to be used to calculate net profit is obtained by applying to the taxable profit for the financial year, adjusted in accordance with the conditions set out…

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