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Showing 7180 of 55089 articles for Art. CA Bordeaux 2-3-2022 n° 18/04413

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Advances

Article 232-18

…ccount of the establishment benefiting from the advance during the twelve months preceding the application. However, this amount may be calculated on the basis of the sums entered in the automatic cin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article R533-18-3

Members of staff of an investment firm who have been given authority to sign on behalf of that firm may not take up any other employment or perform any paid work outside that firm without first inform…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 180-2

…ided for in the said Article 41-1-2 may be expressed or obtained during the information or on the occasion of the settlement procedure provided for in Article 175. The legal representatives of the acc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Mobility leave

Article L1237-18-3

…123-2. For the first twelve months of the leave, which may be extended to twenty-four months in the case of retraining, this remuneration is subject to the same social security regime as the allowance…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-18

…osecutor or the injured party. However, the association will only be admissible in its action if it can prove that it has received the agreement of the victim or, if the victim is a minor, that of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 186-2

…ate of the appeal declaration, failing which, if the person is detained, he or she shall be automatically released.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 187-2

…for in Article 187-1 may request that it be examined directly by the Investigating Chamber. In this case, a decision is taken at the latest on the fifth working day following the request, based on the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 181-2

…e examining magistrate which is no longer subject to appeal has, with regard to the criminal qualifications retained, mistakenly referred the accused to the assize court instead of the departmental cr…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions relating to the accessibility of works to people with sensory disabilities

Article 211-18

…igital subtitling and audio description files and the adaptation of these files to any digital broadcast medium must comply with the methodological requirements of the Charter on the quality of subtit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1843-2

The rights of each shareholder in the share capital are proportional to his contributions when the company is formed or during its existence. Industrial contributions do not contribute to the formatio…

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