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Showing 16011610 of 28315 articles for Art. 29 mai 1980

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other powers

Article L785-9

…Article L. 229-7 of the Environment Code do not apply; 2° References to Regulation (EU)…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Foreign investment subject to prior authorisation

Article R734-13

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording ind…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Prevention of healthcare-associated infections

Article R1524-6

Articles R. 1413-79 to R. 1413-83 and R. 1413-87 are applicable to the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in their wording resulting from Decree No. 2017-885 of 9 May 2017, subject to the fol…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Financing

Article R4133-9

The university hospital centres devote a minimum percentage of 0.50% of their doctors' remuneration, within the meaning of article L. 242-1 of the social security code, to the financing of continuing…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure applicable to the interoperability of technological measures

Article R331-35

…ce for an opinion in accordance with the procedures set out in the last paragraph of Article L. 331-29 and decide to stay the proceedings on the application referred to it, pending this opinion.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 60-1

…ros.On pain of nullity, evidence obtained by a request made in violation of Article 2 of the law of 29 July 1881 on the freedom of the press may not be added to the file.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Articles of association, share capital, shares.

Article R4113-35

…rovisions that must be included in the Articles of Association underarticle 11 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies, and those that may be included unde…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-14

For the application of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, done at The Hague on 14 May 1954, and the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Conditions relating to completion

Article 311-12

Audiovisual works are made, in a minimum proportion fixed by the decree of 21 May 1992 taken for the application ofarticle 6 of decree no. 90-66 of 17 January 1990 laying down the general principles c…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-10

In order to receive assistance from the compensation fund, the delegated production company must complete and submit, electronically by 31 May 2023 at the latest, a form drawn up by the Centre nationa…

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