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Showing 57515760 of 62763 articles for Art. Arrêté DEVL1507007A of 23-3-2015

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Declaration.

Article R5221-36

The content and methods of presentation of the declaration are laid down, on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, by order o…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for exercising the right to vote and stand for election and rules applicable to the conduct of the ballot for the election of members of the Board of Directors

Article A211-3

The Managing Director of the Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance is responsible for drawing up the electoral lists and organising all the operations relating to the electio…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-37

The following shall be entered in the national register of companies, or filed to be appended thereto: 1° For the persons mentioned in 1° of Article L. 123-36, all the information, deeds and documents…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L613-38

…s for persons required to draw up an individual preventive recovery plan pursuant to the provisions of sub-section 2 of this section. These plans shall provide for the resolution measures that may be…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Duties and powers of the pharmacists responsible.

Article R5124-34

…L. 5124-2 : a) In public limited companies other than those governed by articles L. 225-57 et seq. of the Commercial Code, the Chairman of the Board of Directors who is the Chief Executive Officer, t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative proceedings for a declaration of invalidity or revocation of a trade mark

Article R716-3

The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall observe and observe itself the principle of contradiction. It may not base its decision on pleas, explanations or documents put forward or prod…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Financing arrangements for basic training for representatives of users of the healthcare system

Article D1114-39

Associations approved at national or regional level and appearing on the list referred to in II of article L. 1114-1 receive a public subsidy intended to finance the allowance paid to user representat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Certification and publication of the accounts of trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article D2135-3

The annual accounts of professional trade unions of employees or employers and their unions, and associations of employees or employers mentioned in Article L. 2135-1 whose resources within the meanin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Certification and publication of the accounts of trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article D2135-34

The rate of the contribution provided for in II of article L. 2135-10 is set at 0.016%.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition of regional and inter-regional councils and disciplinary chambers of first instance.

Article R4132-3

…ôte d'Azur regional council is the organising council for the elections to the disciplinary chamber of first instance for the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur-Corsica inter-region. Immediately after the vot…

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