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Showing 12111220 of 21091 articles for Art. CA Paris 20-5-2009 n° 08-2432

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to recovery

Article R613-55

For the purposes of Article L. 613-47, the estimate of the losses that the holders of equity securities or other forms of ownership and the creditors of the person subject to a resolution procedure wo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Chairman and Vice-Chairman

Article R6144-5

…itioners who are members. However, when permanent practitioners do not form the majority of the medical, odontological and pharmaceutical staff of the establishment, the internal regulations may provi…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Classification.

Article D333-5-5

The classification decision referred to in Article D. 333-5-3 may be revoked or amended for the remaining period of the initial decision if, following an adversarial procedure initiated by the body re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 30 November 2009

Article 695-9-56

…ional security interests of the State or to compromise the security of a person shall not be communicated.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 30 November 2009

Article 695-9-54

…to result in final judgments, the competent authorities of the Member States concerned shall communicate to each other information relating to the criminal proceedings and shall examine together how t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 30 November 2009

Article 695-9-55

For the application of article 695-9-54, the provisions of Article 11 relating to the secrecy of the investigation and inquiry shall not prevent the communication by the competent judicial authority p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 30 November 2009

Article 695-9-57

A judicial authority which decides, on the basis of the information it has gathered in accordance with Article 695-9-54 and after consultation with the competent authorities of the other Member States…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Decisions.

Article R464-5-5

I.-An applicant who has applied to the European Commission for total or partial exemption from financial penalties, either by allocating a place in the order of arrival with a view to benefiting from…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Article L771-5

Sont applicables en Nouvelle-Calédonie et en Polynésie française, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l'article L. 771-6, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the tab…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Rules of conduct and remuneration

Article L341-52

Any person who pays or causes to be paid the staff mentioned in the fourth and seventh paragraphs of article L. 314-23 under conditions contrary to these provisions is punishable by a fine of 30,000 e…

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