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Showing 44014410 of 18871 articles for Art. CA Douai 12-7-2018 n° 18/00485

French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Role of sports federations

Article L231-7

…ederation to which they belong. This booklet only contains information of a sporting nature and medical information relating to sporting activities. Only doctors approved in application of article L.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Fees charged by judicial auctioneers

Article A444-7

…ing in the following numbers of the table mentioned in Article A. 444-1:1° Number 9 (deposit at the Caisse des dépôts et consignations);2° Number 10 (statement of status at the motor vehicle registrat…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-12

…years may, after serving four years of such period of Ineligibility, participate as an athlete in local sporting events organised by organisations, or their members, which are not signatories to the W…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2224-12-2-1

…r the Centre Communal d'Action Sociale (municipal social action centre), or who benefit, where applicable, from a social tariff introduced by the public drinking water or wastewater service. The proce…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2224-12-3-1

Public water and sanitation utilities may allocate a grant to the housing solidarity fund to help finance aid relating to the payment of water supplies or related collective charges mentioned in artic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Anti-doping education

Article R232-41-12-1

In order to identify the target groups for whom anti-doping education is a priority, the French Anti-Doping Agency takes into account the level of practice of athletes and support staff, the sport dis…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-12-4-1

…3° The research for which the combined fees or joint payment is made concerns issuers whose market capitalisation, for the thirty-six month period preceding the provision of the research, did not exc…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection IV: Special provisions for the register of associations

Article ANNEXE, art. 30-12

…king off an association that falls within the scope of the first paragraph of article 79-I of the local civil code shall be notified in the manner provided for in article 5. In the event that the noti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-12-1-1

…bers may make the dispensing of certain medicines conditional on the performance and results of medical tests, in particular biological or diagnostic tests, by means of a prescription known as a condi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Tax officials entrusted with certain judicial police duties

Article R15-33-29-12

…l order the withdrawal or suspension, for a period not exceeding two years, of the authorisation to carry out judicial police missions, by order issued either ex officio or on the proposal of the head…

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