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Showing 29412950 of 29388 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 12-DCC-18 du 13 Feb 2012

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: The Town Council

Article L2541-12

…awal of formalities for the purging of mortgages; 12° The exercise of the right to graze and range; 13° Guarantee commitments; 14° Transactions. In addition, the municipal council deliberates on matte…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-123

…jective of the undertaking ; 2° A description of developments on the property and financial markets during the financial year; 3° An annotated description of significant events during the financial ye…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-12

The Etablissement Français du Sang, the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre, for the activities of collection, biological qualification of the donation, preparation, distribution, delivery of labile…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article R612-13

The description shall be presented under the conditions and in the order provided for in Article R. 612-12 unless the nature of the invention allows for a different, more intelligible and concise pres…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Presentation and determination of the statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure

Article R6145-13

The budget of public health institutions consists of : 1° A provisional main profit and loss account in which operating transactions are forecast and authorised, excluding those which are recorded in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-135

Any modification concerning the elements and documents mentioned in Article R. 5141-130 is submitted for authorisation to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedure before the liberty and custody judge

Article R3211-13

The judge sets the date, time and place of the hearing.The court clerk will immediately summon, by any means, in their capacity as parties to the proceedings:1° The applicant and his lawyer, if he has…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-131

The capital must be fully paid up before any issue of new shares to be paid up in cash. In addition, a capital increase by public offering, carried out less than two years after the incorporation of a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the official statement of offence, the notice of offence and the payment card for forfeited offences

Article A37-13

…te in colour, entitled "Payment Card", on which the information required by Article A. 37-8 is reproduced on the front and back. The payment card provided for in the previous paragraph may be replaced…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Protection of sole traders

Article L526-13

The professional activity to which the assets are assigned is subject to independent accounting, established under the conditions defined in the articles L. 123-12 à L. 123-23 et L. 123-25 to L. 123-2…

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