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Showing 35613570 of 7791 articles for Art. CA Paris – 26 June 2019 – no. 16/23435

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Maintenance of the National Register of Companies

Article R123-319

Information relating to the registration number in the national register for the identification of natural persons is only disseminated to the authorities, administrations, legal entities and professi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional aid to programming groups and agreements

Article 919-69

For the purposes of this sub-section :1° The turnover share of the group or the lead company of the cartel means the ratio between the average turnover resulting from the programming of independent es…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Banking Inclusion Observatory, funds repayable from the public and dormant accounts

Article R753-4

…oned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article R50-71

…isciplinary committee on security measures referred to in Article 763-10 with jurisdiction over the Paris Court of Appeal and the Paris Sentence Enforcement Court. It informs the sentence enforcement…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Polling station

Article R2122-57

…r honorary judge of the judiciary, appointed by the president of the social division of the Cour de cassation. It also comprises: 1° Two assessors who are administrative judges in office in Paris or h…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The departments and units referred to in article 15-1

Article R15-19

The categories of active services of the national police within which officers and agents of the judicial police perform their usual duties and whose jurisdiction is exercised within the remit of one…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Responsibilities

Article L2521-3

The Paris police prefect is responsible for fire and rescue services in the Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne departments.In this capacity, the Paris fire brigade is the territorially…

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

Article R518-24

…ublic Finance. When they handle deposits from customers whose accounts are held in the books of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, these accountants are its agents. In order to process cash trans…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions.

Article L4424-1

The provisions of Title VI of Book I of this Part are applicable in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the wording resulting from Law no. 2019-774 of 24 July 2019 relating to the organi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO NEW CALEDONIA

Article L732-4

…provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in New Caledonia, subject to the adapt…

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