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Showing 12511260 of 17962 articles for Art. 5 avr. 2011

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R4314-5

…industrial, craft or liberal profession activity; 4° Initiate investigations on its own initiative; 5° Contacting an economic operator under an assumed identity to obtain commercial information; 6° Ac…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisional profit and loss account for training schools and institutes.

Article R6145-56

…provisional profit and loss account for the schools and institutes mentioned in 3° of article R. 6145-12 shows the operating costs and income attributable to the activity of these schools and institut…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 696-53

…last known place(s) of residence in the issuing State, in the executing State or in another State; 5° The reasons for forwarding the decision to place the person under judicial supervision with regar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Security period

Article 720-5

By way of derogation from the first paragraph of Article 720-4 of this Code, where the Assize Court has decided, pursuant to Article 421-7 of the Criminal Code, to increase the security period to thir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-51

…1-2, the procedures for obtaining consent or the procedures for verifying the absence of opposition;5° If storage or preparation activities for therapeutic purposes are carried out on the same site, d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds.

Article D2573-59

…daptations provided for in II and III. APPLICABLE PROVISIONS IN THEIR DRAFTING RESULTING FROM R. 2335-1, D. 2335-1-1and R. 2335-2 Decree no. 2023-352 of 9 May 2023 D. 2335-3Décret n° 2000-318 du 7 avr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Provisions relating to the implementation of an internal bail-out measure

Article L613-55

…r the use of an asset management structure in application of the provisions of sub-paragraphs 3 and 5 of paragraph 2 of this sub-section respectively. II. - The reduction in value or conversion of eli…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Self-employed persons, members of the liberal professions and the self-employed.

Article L6331-53

…training initiatives, as defined in article L. 6313-1, a contribution which may not be less than 0.15% of the annual amount of the social security ceiling. This contribution is collected on a single o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Innovation mutual funds.

Article R214-50

…the contractual subscription or purchase commitment made by the fund is included in the numerator; 5° The denominator is the higher of the following two amounts: the net assets of the fund or the tot…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Mayotte Regional Health Agency

Article D1446-5

For the application of Article D. 1432-15 to the Mayotte Regional Health Agency, I is worded as follows: I.-The Supervisory Board is made up of eighteen members. In addition to the Prefect of Mayotte,…

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