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Showing 40914100 of 6535 articles for Art. CA Rennes – 17 Dec. 2024 – no. 23/05277

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to land transport.

Article R6314-4

…ine of the third class: 1° Failing to keep an up-to-date list of its staff, specifying their qualifications, and failing to send it annually to the regional health agency ; 2° Failing to inform, durin…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IV: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R445-3

For the application of this book in French Polynesia: 1° Access to work for foreign nationals shall be exercised under the conditions laid down by the laws and regulations applicable locally and in co…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to declare goods in detail, customs representatives.

Article 86

…October 2013 establishing the Union Customs Code are laid down by the order provided for inArticle 17a of this Code.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D351-10

…hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: APPLICABLE ARTICLES IN THEIR WORDS D. 314-15 to D.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article R930-1

…e adaptations provided for in the following chapters, the following provisions of the Code are applicable in New Caledonia:1° Book I, with the exception of Articles R. 121-3, R. 121-4, R. 122-1 to R.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L5842-6

…ioned 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, subject to the adaptations provided for from II to…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Powers and organisation for the protection of copyright and related rights

Article L331-16

Under the conditions laid down in article 17-1 of the law no. 95-73 of 21 January 1995 on security policy and programming, decisions to authorise the agents mentioned in article L. 331-14 of the prese…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special case of payment instruments with personalised security data

Article L133-20

…payment service provider or the entity designated by the latter, in accordance with article L. 133-17, for the purpose of blocking the payment instrument, the payer shall not bear any financial conse…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Local authorities

Article L2221-1

Communes and syndicates of communes may directly operate services of public interest of an industrial or commercial nature. Operations likely to be managed by private companies, either by application…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 706-25-2-1

The courts and magistrates mentioned in Article 706-17 may ask specialist assistants, appointed under the conditions set out in Article 706, to take part, in accordance with the procedures laid down i…

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