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Showing 45714580 of 35842 articles for Art. 473 · Cass. 1re civ. avis 6 December 2018 · Cass. 1re civ. 19 March 2014 · CA Paris 20 November 2014

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General powers

Article R3551-6-5

…firefighters;- the consultative committee of volunteer firefighters provided for in article R. 3551-6-7 for provisions specific to volunteer firefighters;- the administrative and technical commission…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Execution of measures

Article R15-33-60

If proceedings are initiated in the cases provided for in the twentieth paragraph of Article 41-2, the file relating to these proceedings, which may include details of the measures carried out in whol…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety

Article L1313-6-1

…Article L. 522-1 of the French Environment Code and fertilising materials and growing media in application of the eleventh paragraph of Article L. 1313-1 of this Code.The minutes of the meetings of th…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L441-6-1

Articles L. 436-10 to L. 436-13 are applicable to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in the wording resulting from the law no. 2022-1726 of 30 December 2022 on finances for 2023.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-6

Any order made on the basis of articles 706-72-2 or 706-72-3 by which an examining magistrate decides to relinquish jurisdiction or by which the examining magistrate of the Paris Judicial Court decide…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article L214-175-6

…eld liable if it proves, under the conditions defined by the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers, that the loss is the result of an external event.In the event of a loss of finan…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions for certain territories

Article L5125-6-1

In the territories defined in article L. 5125-6, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency will draw up an order, after consulting the relevant local council of the Ordre des pharmaciens and…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 7: Priority question of constitutionality

Article R*532-66

Refusal to forward the application relieves the National Court of Asylum of the plea of unconstitutionality. The decision settling the dispute shall refer to the refusal to refer.The bench may, howeve…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Issue.

Article R5132-6-1

Dispensing chemists may supply shipping companies operating ships with medicines listed on the medical supplies provided for in the regulations annexed to the decree of 23 November 1987 relating to sh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General powers

Article R3551-6-4

The health and medical rescue service carries out the following missions: 1° Monitoring the physical condition of firefighters; 2° Carrying out professional and fitness medicine for professional firef…

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