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Showing 63216330 of 8984 articles for Art. n° 22-18436 · AFNOR NF K 12-500

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Profits

Article L232-17

The company may not require shareholders or unit holders to repay any dividends, except where the following two conditions are met:1° If the distribution has been made in breach of the provisions of a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-9

…7/2402 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 creating a general framework for securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisatio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article R642-7

…d to the hearing, at least fifteen days before the date of the hearing, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, by the court clerk on the instructions of the administrator, where one has…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R713-32

The number of consular delegates is set, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 713-12, by prefectoral order. The distribution of delegates between the categories corresponding respectively t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Content and duration of judicial supervision

Article D147-37-1

If judicial supervision includes placement under mobile electronic monitoring, the sentence enforcement court or the sentence enforcement judge shall notify the sentenced person, before his release an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Withdrawal of sentence reductions in the event of non-compliance with obligations

Article D147-42

…f the second paragraph of article 763-12 and of the article R. 544-5 of the Penitentiary Code, the enforcement judge shall order, in accordance with the provisions of article 723-35, the withdrawal of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating resources

Article R612-14

The costs of resources and services, other than those provided directly by a supplier, provided by the Banque de France to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, and charged to the latt…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Consultation of voters

Article D6233-1

…made by the members of the territorial council on the occasion of this deliberation, as well as an information notice on the purpose of the consultation.The file includes, in particular, the deliberat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bodies

Article R4021-8

The president of the Agence nationale du développement professionnel continu is the president of the general meeting of the founding members of the public interest grouping referred to in article R. 4…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Ongoing evaluation of the criteria for granting early access authorisation and transmission of new data

Article R5121-71

…plicable, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may at any time ask the holder of the exploitation rights for the medicinal product covered by the early access author…

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