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Showing 22012210 of 2822 articles for Art. 22 avr. 1980

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-3

…n matters of property effects of registered partnerships;- of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and comme…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Miscellaneous duties and taxes.

Article 285 octies

…to enhanced controls and listed in Annex I to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 of 22 October 2019 on the temporary reinforcement of official controls and emergency measures governing…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-2

…n administrative composition agreement concluded pursuant to the fourth paragraph of article L. 232-22, and the Sanction Commission may, under the conditions set out below, suspend the sanction provid…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financing conditions

Article 311-8

…audiovisual works and its annual turnover within the meaning ofArticle 2 of Decree no. 2021-793 of 22 June 2021 on on-demand audiovisual media services, achieved in the calendar year preceding that o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Access by the National Commission to information covered by medical confidentiality

Article R1142-41-1

…communication concerns, in particular, information held by the office mentioned in article L. 1142-22 concerning the activities of the commissions mentioned in article L. 1142-5 and necessary for the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article R784-11

…005R. 613-20-1no. 2010-257 of 14 March 2010R. 613-20-2n° 2013-383 of 6 May 2013R. 613-21 and R. 613-22n° 2005-1007 of 2 August 2005R. 613-23n° 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 613-28n° 2018-710 of 3 Aug…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: The mayor and deputy mayors

Article L2573-6

…subject to the adaptations provided for in II to VI. APPLICABLE PROVISIONS AS PROVIDED FOR IN L. 2122-1 and L. 2122-2 law no. 96-142 of 21 February 1996 L. 2122-2-1 law no. 2002-276 of 27 February 20…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Events and meetings subject to declaration

Article A331-17

…f the delegating federation concerned in accordance with the conditions laid down in article R. 331-22-1 or, failing this, the referral to the federation.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Safeguard plan.

Article L626-1

…are subject to the provisions of Section 1 of Chapter II of Title IV and to those of article L. 642-22. However, the mandataire judiciaire carries out the tasks entrusted to the liquidator. In additio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Personal bankruptcy and other prohibition measures.

Article L653-8

…nistrator or liquidator with the information that he is required to provide pursuant to article L. 622-6 within one month of the opening judgment or who has knowingly failed to comply with the obligat…

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