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Showing 54215430 of 9051 articles for Art. 158 · CE 18 June 1990 n° 61022 · CE 16 July 2008 n° 277180 · CE 16 June 2004 n° 235647

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R4113-1

…his section govern companies formed pursuant to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R4113-12

No more than one quarter of the capital of a société d'exercice libéral de médecins ou de sages-femmes may be held by one or more persons who do not meet the conditions of the first paragraph or of 1°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constitution

Article R4381-14

No more than one quarter of the capital of a société d'exercice libéral mentioned in article R. 4381-8 may be held by one or more persons who do not meet the conditions of the first paragraph or of 1°…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-2

Persons entitled to the title of patent attorney on the date of entry into force of the Law No. 90-1052 of 26 November 1990 relating to industrial property are automatically entered on the list provid…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Chapter I: Status and missions

Article R1231-3

…ng the actions mentioned in V of Article 36 and in the second paragraph of article 41 of decree no. 2004-374 of 29 April 2004 relating to the powers of prefects, the organisation and action of State s…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article L111-7

…offering, on a professional basis, whether remunerated or not, an online public communication service based on: 1° The classification or referencing, by means of computer algorithms, of content, good…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-11

…gnition respectively made pursuant to Articles 30 and 40 of Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 260

…s, although the number of jurors may not be less than two hundred. An order of the Minister of Justice may, for the annual list of each assize court, set a higher number of jurors than that resulting…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Registrations and amending registrations carried out ex officio

Article R123-299

With regard to decisions to open safeguard or receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings opened on or after 26 June 2018, without prejudice to 1° of Article R. 123-298, the following informati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article D214-232-1

…232, the following securitisation undertakings are excluded from the scope of II of article L. 214-167 : 1° Economic loan funds referred to in I ofarticle R. 332-14-2 of the Insurance Code; 2° Undert…

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