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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-9

…sible for convening the meeting for the purpose of deciding on such adaptations or transformations. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, such decisions are taken by a majority in number of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-98

…taken by a majority of the votes cast by the shareholders present or represented. The votes cast do not include those attached to shares for which the shareholder did not take part in the vote, abstai…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to oral proceedings

Article 446-3

…ions of fact and law that he deems necessary for the resolution of the dispute and give them formal notice to produce, within a period that he shall determine, all the documents or justifications like…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 202

…anours, contraventions, principal or related, resulting from the file of the proceedings, which may not have been covered by the order of the investigating judge or which may have been distracted by a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Simplified procedure

Article 495-4

…sly waive his opposition. The criminal order then becomes enforceable again and a new opposition is not admissible.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Referral to the conciliator and examination of the claim

Article R141-20

The names of the conciliators are notified to each party. Each party may challenge the conciliators so appointed within three days of receipt of the notification referred to in the first paragraph on…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Reclassification of the contract.

Article L1245-2

…rial tribunal upholds the employee's claim, it will award compensation, payable by the employer, of not less than one month's salary. This provision applies without prejudice to the application of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Liability insurance.

Article L124-4

In the case provided for in article L. 25-1 of the Highway Code, as stated in that article, "the insurer of the owner of the vehicle is obliged to guarantee, within the limits of the contract, compens…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Effects of winding-up proceedings of companies whose registered office is located within the territory of a Member State of the European Union other than France.

Article L326-29

The administrator or liquidator appointed by the competent authority of another Member State shall be entitled to exercise on the territory of the French Republic all the powers which he is entitled t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Advisory procedure

Article 122-5

Prior consultation with reading committees or readers is carried out in one of the following ways:1° Only projects that have received a favourable opinion from reading committees or readers are submit…

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