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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Company accounts and accounting documents.

Article R533-2-2

…eport the return on their assets, calculated by dividing their net profit by their balance sheet total.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Miscellaneous acts

Article A444-163-3

Deeds relating to authorisations for temporary occupation of the public domain mentioned in articles L. 1311-5 et seq. of the General Local Authorities Code and which constitute rights in rem give ris…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Determining taxable income

Article 31 bis

The member of a société civile de placement immobilier, governed by articles L. 214-114 et seq. of the French Monetary and Financial Code, whose share of income is, pursuant to Article 8, subject in i…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Nordic cross-country skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192-3

In the context of freedom of establishment, when the Minister responsible for sport considers, after receiving the opinion of the permanent cross-country skiing section of the training and employment…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-3

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may require a Class 2 or Class 3 investment firm to take, at an early stage, any measures necessary to address any of the following issues: 1° T…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 6: Rent.

Article L145-34

…ual to that which has elapsed between the initial date of the lease and the date of its actual renewal. The provisions of the above paragraph are no longer applicable when, as a result of a tacit exte…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Injunctions to perform

Article L238-3

The public prosecutor as well as any interested person may request the president of the competent court ruling in summary proceedings to enjoin, if necessary under penalty, the legal representative of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Pharmacy professions.

Article L4443-3

Alternate members of the Disciplinary Board replace full members who are unable to sit. If a full member ceases to hold office for any reason whatsoever, he is replaced by his alternate. A supplementa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Dissolution

Article L5212-33

The union is dissolved:a) Either automatically on expiry of the term set by the decision establishing it or on completion of the operation it was intended to carry out or when it no longer has more th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 12: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R641-39

The list of claims mentioned in I of Article L. 641-13, brought to the attention of the administrator where one has been appointed or of the liquidator, pursuant to IV of the same article, shall be fi…

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