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Showing 33213330 of 4038 articles for Art. 17 Dec 1990

French Consumer CodeIn force
Title IV: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R541-2

…ithout prejudice to the penalty provided for in Article L. 531-6" are deleted; 2° In Article R. 512-17, the references: "R. 512-18 to R. 512-24" are replaced by the references: "R. 512-18 to R. 512-21…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: JURISDICTION OF DECONCENTRAL ADMINISTRATIONS

Article R*122-3

By way of derogation from article R. * 122-1 and the first paragraph of article 11-1 of decree no. 2004-374 of 29 April 2004, on the rights-of-way of the Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Le Bourget and Paris-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-14-1

…II of the same Article L. 621-15, and with the professional obligations mentioned in Article L. 621-17, the AMF Board may, at the same time as it notifies the parties of the objections under the condi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article L3332-16

…for employees. The sums or securities entered in the participants' accounts, upon their individual decision, must be held until the end of the buy-back operation mentioned in 2°, without the holding…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Actions and resources of members of multidisciplinary occupational health teams.

Article L4624-7

…the exception of data collected in the shared medical file in application of IV of article L. 1111-17 of the Public Health Code, may be notified to the physician whom the employer appoints for this p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-14

…ce for the purpose of obtaining compensation from it, under the terms set out in article R. 1142-63-17. The proposal and the settlement agreement also state that the purpose of the compensation is to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant

Article R2334-9-3

…he Wallis and Futuna Islands, in accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of the aforementioned Decree of 17 August 1994.Unless otherwise stated, the population to be taken into account for the ap…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to offences not giving rise to the loss of driving licence points

Article A37-4

…n when information concerning you is subject to automated processing (art. 39 et 40 de la loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978) to:the officer of the public prosecutor's office at the local court or the pol…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-20

…re of data, the right to restriction and the right to object, provided for respectively in Articles 17, 18 and 21 of the same Regulation, do not apply to this processing.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Registration

Article R822-6

…t are set by order of the Minister of Justice. Applicants are admitted to take the aptitude test by decision of the Minister of Justice. To this end, the interested party sends his or her file to the…

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