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Showing 17111720 of 55089 articles for Art. CA Bordeaux 2-3-2022 n° 18/04413

French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue and withdrawal of delegations

Article R131-28-3

The delegation contract and its appendices are published under the conditions set out in article R. 131-36. The delegation contracts and their appendices are also made available to the public on a web…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Remuneration

Article R6152-355-2

…furniture, relating to their change of residence are borne, in accordance with the provisions applicable to civil servants, by the establishment in the community concerned to which the practitioners…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article R561-20-3

…of Article L. 561-2 shall take measures to determine whether the beneficiaries of life insurance or capitalisation contracts and, where applicable, their beneficial owners, are persons mentioned in 1°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-310-2

Midwives may not use the Association's logo without the prior written authorisation of the Association's national council. Nor may she use a pseudonym to practise her profession; if she does use one f…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The Interministerial Commission for the Recognition of the State of Natural Disaster

Article D125-3-2

…its operation and secretariat. The commission's secretariat is responsible in particular for communicating the report provided for in I of article L. 125-1-1 to the National Advisory Commission on Nat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Reimbursement of expenses

Article D3123-22-3

…mum amount of this aid is equal to that set by article D. 7233-8 of the French Employment Code, per calendar year and per beneficiary who has used one or more services financed by this aid.It may not…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Reimbursement of expenses

Article D4135-22-3

…mum amount of this aid is equal to that set by article D. 7233-8 of the French Employment Code, per calendar year and per beneficiary who has used one or more services financed by this aid.It may not…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Election campaign and voting operations

Article R4031-34-2

…lope, to each of the full and alternate members of the electronic voting committee. Each key is allocated according to a procedure that guarantees that the recipients alone have knowledge of the secre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Statutory audit.

Article L823-3-2

By way of derogation from the first paragraph of Article L. 823-3, where the statutory auditor is appointed by a company voluntarily or pursuant to the first or last paragraphs of article L. 823-2-2,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administration of Caisse des dépôts et consignations.

Article R518-30-2

I.-For the application of Article L. 518-15-2, the Supervisory Board of Caisse des dépôts et consignations is informed of the inspections carried out by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résol…

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