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Showing 24812490 of 3446 articles for Art. 21 déc. 2017

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article D2224-35

…consistency of methods and independence of financial years defined in articles L. 123-17 and L. 123-21 of the French Commercial Code and ensures the comparability of data from one financial year to th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Allocation de professionnalisation et de solidarité et allocation de fin de droits.

Article D5424-55

…in article L. 5424-20 or under the unemployment compensation scheme provided for in article L. 5424-21 as well as under the temporary specific fund and the transitional fund, under the conditions set…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constitution

Article R4381-9

…voices, advertisements and various publications, issued by a company referred to in Article R. 4381-21 must indicate :1° Its company name, immediately preceded or followed by, as appropriate :a) eithe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Assistant pharmacists.

Article R5125-34

…pharmacists carry out their activities under the conditions set out in articles L. 5125-20, L. 5125-21, L. 5126-14 and L. 5124-4.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Grants and other revenue allocated by the Local Finance Committee

Article L2334-40

…ation urbaine, recorded on 1st January of the year of allocation, or there existed on 1st January 2021 on the communal territory at least one multi-annual agreement concluded with the National Agency…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Article A212-120

…hs before the date set for the defence. The document must be at least forty typewritten pages long (21 × 29.7 page format, recto only).B. - A modern foreign language test (coefficient 1) chosen from E…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article L774-3

…he same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 511-9 and L. 511-10 Order no. 2021-796 of 23 June 2021 L. 511-11 Ordinance no. 2014-158 of 20 February 2014 L. 511-12-1 Order no. 20…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article D3821-12

Articles D. 3121-1 to D. 3121-14 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna.Articles D. 3121-21 to D. 3121-23-1 and D. 3121-24 to D. 3121-26, in the version resulting from Decree No. 2015-796 of 1st July 201…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-22-1

…he latter is liable to disciplinary sanctions taken under the conditions set out in articles L. 232-21-1 to L. 232-23-3-12.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Governance

Article L224-26

…ive schemes, a supervisory committee is set up in accordance with the provisions of articles L. 224-21 and L. 224-22. However, this supervisory committee is optional when the payments are allocated so…

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