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Showing 14711480 of 47419 articles for Art. 201 3 bis · CE 5 January 1948 · CE 27 January 1986 · CAA Nantes 16 December 1992 · CE 8 December 1986

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Implementing provisions

Article L3334-16

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of this chapter.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Legal proceedings.

Article L5212-16

…nd the interests of the beneficiaries of this chapter may bring a civil action based on non-compliance with the provisions of this chapter, where such non-compliance causes definite harm to the collec…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Operating conditions

Article L5125-16

A pharmacy may only remain open in the absence of its proprietor if the latter has been duly replaced. The annex mentioned in article L. 5125-7-1 may not remain open to the public in the absence of a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R1110-16

…inst whom complaints have been lodged, and the Director of the Union nationale des caisses d'assurance maladie (National Union of Health Insurance Funds) will send a report on the actions taken in app…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Employee information.

Article R4512-16

Time spent providing information to employees is treated as actual working time.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Criminal provisions

Article R7422-16

…eir application is punishable by a fourth-class fine, imposed as many times as there are workers concerned.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Hosting of paper-based personal health data

Article R1111-16

If it is implemented, the hosting of personal health data on paper mentioned in article L. 1111-8 is entrusted to a natural person or legal entity benefiting from approval granted by the Minister for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4a: Administrative composition

Article R621-37-5

The administrative composition procedure is definitively interrupted : 1° If the person to whom it has been proposed refuses or fails to make a decision within the time limit set in article R. 621-37-…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Assessment and collection of taxes

Article 1657

…ssessment bases for direct taxes are rounded to the nearest euro; the fraction of a euro equal to 0.50 is counted as 1.The bases for property tax and council tax on second homes and other furnished pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Société civile immobilière d'accession progressive à la propriété (non-trading property company for progressive home ownership)

Article 16

…their members by non-trading property companies for progressive home ownership operating in accordance with articles L. 443-6-2 to L. 443-6-13 of the construction and housing code are exempt from inco…

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