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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-102

…es and former employees within the framework of company mutual funds governed by Chapter III of loi n° 88-1201 du 23 décembre 1988relative aux organismes de placement collectif en valeurs mobilières e…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article A134-1

For the application of Article R. 134-2, notwithstanding Article 142-3 of Regulation No. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorité des normes comptables relating to the accounting framework for insu…

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

Article R123-208-1

…ird employment plan ; 3° Persons exercising the profession of taxi operator provided for by the loi n° 95-66 du 20 janvier 1995 relative à l'accès à l'activité de conducteur ou au transport de marchan…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Reintegration into French nationality

Article 24-2

Persons who have lost French nationality due to marriage to a foreigner or the acquisition by individual measure of a foreign nationality may, subject to the provisions of article 21-27, be reinstated…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Federal performance projects

Article R221-19

Federal performance projects include structures managed separately or jointly, particularly on the basis of an agreement, by the delegated federation concerned, by an association affiliated to it, or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-11

The provisions of this paragraph shall apply to the special investigative techniques mentioned in this section. These special investigative techniques may be implemented if the requirements of the inv…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constitution.

Article R322-44

Subject to the provisions of articles R. 322-99 and R. 322-158, mutual insurance companies must have a formation fund of at least :-400,000 euros for the operations referred to in Articles 10 to 15, 2…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-5

Undertakings reinsuring commitments under an agreement on a uniform proportional basis apply articles R. 441-7 to R. 441-7-3, R. 441-12 and R. 441-21. For the purposes of these articles, the following…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Fonds de compensation des risques de l'assurance de la construction.

Article R431-59

The craft businesses referred to in the seventh paragraph of article L. 431-14 are defined in the first paragraph of article 1 of decree no. 62-235 of 1 March 1962 amended by article 1 of decree no. 7…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Closure of proceedings

Article L742-20

If the judge finds at the hearing to open the personal recovery proceedings with judicial liquidation that the debtor is clearly in the situation defined in the second paragraph of Article L. 742-21,…

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