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Showing 22912300 of 66561 articles for Art. 1228 · Cass. com. 1 February 1978 · Cass. com. 10 February 1958 · Cass. com. 3 October 1977 · Cass. ch. req. 7 May 1923 · Cass. 1re civ. 24 May 1966

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to account rights and customer relations

Article R754-24

…e right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 351-3no. 2014-551 of 27 May 2014R. 351-5No. 2005-1738 of 30 December 2005II. - For the application o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Deconcentrated services

Article R8122-10

I.-In each inspection unit mentioned in 1° of article R. 8122-3, the labour inspection inspector carries out his duties on the territory of a section. When necessary, they may intervene in the rest of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: In-depth assessment

Article D1-10-2

…of the procedure in the event of the emergence of new elements among those mentioned in article D. 1er-3.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D71-111-10

The financing requirement or surplus of the investment section recorded at the end of the financial year is made up of the outturn balance corrected for outstanding commitments.The outturn balance of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General organisation.

Article L6141-7-3

Public health establishments may set up one or more hospital foundations, with legal personality, resulting from the irrevocable allocation to the establishment concerned of assets, rights or resource…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Creation, extension and conversion.

Article R2324-24

…f the elements of the application for authorisation or for the opinion defined in II of article R. 2324-18 as well as those in I of article R. 2324-19, or to one of the mentions in the authorisation o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter X: Digital asset service providers

Article D54-10-1

1° The service of custody of digital assets on behalf of third parties consists of controlling, on behalf of a third party, the means of access to the digital assets registered in the shared electroni…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article L3123-10-1

…epartmental council benefit each year from an individual right to training recorded in euros, which may be accumulated over the entire term of office up to a ceiling and the annual amount of which is…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training.

Article L4135-10-1

…he Regional Council benefit each year from an individual right to training recorded in euros, which may be accumulated over the entire term of office up to a ceiling and the annual amount of which is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Qualifications of persons and organisations carrying out location surveys, dust measurements and analyses of materials and products

Article R1334-24

…bodies are deemed to have fulfilled the obligation to transmit information laid down in article L. 1334-14, when they communicate the results of the analyses they have carried out to the persons carr…

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