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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article L441-13

…s and Futuna Islands and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the payment periods provided for in I of Article L. 441-10 and 1° to 4° of II of Article L. 441-11 shall only be counted from the date of customs cle…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article L441-11

…to reduce the maximum payment period set in the second, third and fourth paragraphs of I of Article L. 441-10. They may also propose to use the date of receipt of the goods or performance of the reque…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article L441-15

…o take a formal position on compliance with the second, third and fourth paragraphs of I of Article L. 441-10 of the arrangements for calculating the payment periods that it plans to introduce. The pu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article L441-14

…repeated basis, significant failings by the company to comply with the requirements of I of article L. 441-10 or 5° of II of Article L. 441-11.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article L441-10

…e days after the date of issue of the invoice. II.-The terms of payment referred to in I of article L. 441-1 specify the conditions of application and the interest rate for late payment penalties paya…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

Article L654-12

…including any person appointed pursuant to the provisions of the first paragraph of II of Article L. 812-2 or of III of the same article: 1° Deliberately harming the interests of the creditors or th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

Article L654-10

…e spouse, descendants or ascendants or collaterals or relatives of the persons mentioned in Article L. 654-1, to misappropriate, divert or conceal assets belonging to a debtor subject to receivership…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

Article L654-11

In the cases provided for in the preceding articles, the court hearing the case shall rule, even if there is an acquittal: 1° Ex officio, on the reinstatement in the debtor's assets of all property, r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

Article L654-13

A creditor who, after the judgment opening the safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings, enters into an agreement involving a particular advantage to be borne by the debtor shall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

Article L654-15

…functions in breach of the prohibitions, disqualifications or incapacities provided for by articles L. 653-2 and L. 653-8, is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros.

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