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Showing 29112920 of 3685 articles for Art. 21 Mar 2000

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Registration

Article R822-2

…comptabilité et de gestion dans les conditions définies à l'article 50 of decree no. 2012-432 of 30 March 2012; 3° Hold diplomas deemed to be of a level equivalent to those mentioned in 2° by the Mini…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Article R917-16

…lture, Commerce, Industry, Trades and Crafts of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon provides the Prefect by 31 March at the latest with the list of natural persons and company directors of legal entities registe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Subcontracting of preparations to a pharmaceutical manufacturing establishment

Article R5125-33-3

…blishment is drawn up in compliance with the good preparation practices referred to in Article L. 5121-5. III -An annual statement of subcontracting contracts for the preparations mentioned in 2° of I…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave

Article R6152-917

…ioned in article R. 6152-918, on the list drawn up pursuant toarticle 28 of decree no. 86-442 of 14 March 1986 relating to the appointment of approved doctors, the organisation of medical committees a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Exemptions of more than two years

Article 1384 C

…blissement public de gestion immobilière du Nord-Pas-de-Calais created by the article 191 of law n° 2000-1208 du 13 décembre 2000 relative à la solidarité et au renouvellement urbains lorsque ces loge…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3642-2

I. - 1. Without prejudice to Article L. 2212-2 of this Code and notwithstanding article L. 1311-2 and to the second paragraph of l'article L. 1331-1 du code de la santé publique, the President of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Financial contributions from municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and the département to the budget of the departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article L1424-36

…averages are established by the departmental consultative committee provided for in article L. 1424-21.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of full adoption

Article 357

…hin the limit of the first surname for each of them, joined in alphabetical order.Where article 311-21, the second paragraph of article 311-23, article 342-12 or this article has been applied in respe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article L1454-4

…t the offence or of the thing that is the object or product of the offence, pursuant to article 131-21 of the same Code.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-15-3

…ation may also be investigated and recorded by the agents mentioned in articles L. 511-3 and L. 511-21 of the French Consumer Code, under the conditions set out in article L. 511-7 of the same code. T…

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