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Showing 59515960 of 7791 articles for Art. CA Paris – 26 June 2019 – no. 16/23435

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Seller's lien.

Article L141-21

…icles L. 236-8 to L. 236-17 or a demerger subject to the provisions of articles L. 236-20 to L. 236-26, or if it is made to a company wholly owned by the seller, any contribution of goodwill made to a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Reinsurance.

Article R322-83

…tered letter sent to each member stating the reason for the approval sought at the meeting; in this case, any member has the right to terminate his commitment within three months of the date of the no…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions relating to the control of groups

Article R356-5-2

…utorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution to a competent authority of another Member State to carry out on-site inspections of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or a person linked to it, p…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Information on the social conditions under which products are manufactured

Article D113-1

For the application of the provisions of Article L. 113-1, the following constitute international conventions relating to fundamental human rights: 1° The International Covenant on Civil and Political…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Detention of asylum seekers and transmission of their application to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPP)

Article R754-9

…reign national referred to in Article R. 754-7 in detention, the authority responsible for the application, as soon as it is informed of this, will immediately forward the asylum application file, as…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions specific to the Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L632-11-1

Notwithstanding the provisions of Act No. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 on the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal per…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article A132-4-3

For life insurance or capitalisation contracts, when the policyholder or subscriber converts individual rights into rights expressed in units of account that were not selected when the contract was ta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Industrial tribunal members

Article D1423-67

…nal member may claim to have devoted to drafting decisions that are clearly linked, in particular because of the identity of a party, the subject matter or the cause of action, and which have not been…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Managing Director

Article R1313-18

…rector General recruits, appoints and manages the civil servants whose status is governed by decree no. 98-695 of 30 July 1998, amended by decree no. 99-242 of 26 March 1999, relating to the special s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions relating to the approval by employees of agreements negotiated by mandated employees or in application of Article L. 2232-12

Article D2232-2

The conditions under which the employer seeks the approval of employees in application of articles L. 2232-12, L. 2232-23-1, L. 2232-24 and L. 2232-26 are as follows:1° The consultation takes place du…

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