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Showing 46614670 of 7758 articles for Art. 10 nov. 1982

French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: General procedural provisions.

Article L663-1-1

Where precautionary measures ordered pursuant to articles L. 621-2, L. 631-10-1 and L. 651-4 relate to assets whose conservation or holding generates costs or which are likely to deteriorate, the offi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Armed Forces Medical Corps

Article L4444-3

The provisions of articles L. 4131-2, L. 4141-4, L. 4151-6, L. 4221-15, L. 4241-10, L. 4311-12-1 and L. 4321-7 are applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Orde…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Advertising.

Article L5122-16

…medicinal products may be given to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 5122-10; 4° (Repealed) ; 5° (Repealed) ; 6° The procedures for applying article L. 5122-8-1.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-70

…red quorum, a second meeting is convened in the manner provided for in articles R. 225-67 and R. 22-10-20 and the notice of meeting states the date of the first meeting. The same applies to the conven…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Establishment conditions.

Article R4532-77

…ter-company safety, health and working conditions committee when the worksite is expected to exceed 10,000 man-days and the number of companies, including self-employed workers and subcontractors, exc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article R6523-2-11

…the absence of an application for authorisation submitted under the conditions of article R. 6523-2-10, or if the applications submitted do not meet the conditions laid down in I of the same article,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Declaration, registration of activity and withdrawal of registration

Article R7232-22

…t of a decision to withdraw the benefit of Articles L. 7233-2 of the Labour Code and Article L. 241-10 of the Social Security Code may not, in application of the second paragraph of Article L. 7232-8,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-13

…structs the delivery to the civil registrar of the joint acknowledgement referred to in Article 342-10 incurs liability. If the joint acknowledgement referred to in the same article 342-10 is not prov…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Employee with a fixed-term employment contract.

Article L1226-20

…r can prove that it is unable to offer a job, under the conditions provided for in articles L. 1226-10 and L. 1226-11, to an employee who has been declared unfit and holds such a contract, or if the e…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article R122-11

…eneficiary's request and the declaration of collaborative work, provided for in I of article R. 122-10;b) In the absence of these documents, a copy of the documents proving that the professional respo…

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