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Showing 27712780 of 3965 articles for Art. 17 avr. 1996

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions specific to the Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L632-11-1

…nditions laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups

Article A356-3

In accordance with article R. 356-17, when an undertaking mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 356-8 is a participating undertaking of a credit institution, an investment firm or a financial…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Control of training expenditure and activities.

Article L6361-2

…financed in this capacity by France Compétences; d) The commissions referred to in article L. 6323-17-6 approved to take charge of vocational transition projects; e) The organisations responsible for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Proceedings against the trader

Article R1110-15

…the local health insurance body will initiate the sanction procedure provided for inarticle L. 114-17-1 of the Social Security Code, in accordance with the procedures set out in article R. 147-14 of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter: Armed Forces Medical Corps

Article L6441-1

…applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the version resulting from Order No. 2018-20 of 17 January 2018.For the application of Article L. 6147-10 in New Caledonia, the second paragraph of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Penalties.

Article R310-19

…ntion in any advertising relating to a sales operation the information required in l'article R. 310-17.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Out-of-court settlement procedure.

Article R1142-18

…te. The request is made in accordance with the conditions set out in articles R. 1142-13 to R. 1142-17 , without it being necessary to determine whether the damage for which the request is made is of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Apprenticeship programme authorisation procedure

Article R1161-16

…data processing referred to in 6° of article R. 1161-24 in application of article 25 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-30

…the prefect for the purposes of amending the list of bathing waters provided for in article D. 1332-17 and to the director general of the regional health agency.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Termination of management (R)

Article R2221-26

…y halt the operations of the régie. In this case, the provisions of articles R. 2221-16 and R. 2221-17 apply.

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