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Showing 4150 of 52912 articles for Art. CA Versailles 13 January 2000 · Cass. com. 27 February 2001 · Cass. com. 6 May 2002 · CA Poitiers 26 November 1986 · Cass. com. 4 December 2012

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article R6523-26-4

After the third paragraph of III of Article R. 6123-3, the following provisions are added: "3° Each year, the activities of the Overseas Agency for Mobility and Adapted Military Service in the local a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-6

Mutual societies and associations thereof may only accept reinsurance risks under the conditions laid down by the decree provided for in Article L. 310-7.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
1. Functions.

Article R6152-26-4

Any hospital practitioner intending to carry out a private for-profit activity outside the establishment must inform the director of the establishment in which he/she is principally employed in writin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for processing applications

Article R1142-63-26

…to the Office is required, at the request of the latter, to transmit this information to it in application of the first paragraph of article L. 1142-24-11. Information covered by medical confidentiali…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional Cooperation Fund

Article R*4433-27

The list of operations financed by the regional cooperation fund and the subsidy rate applicable to each shall be determined after consultation with the heads of diplomatic posts in the States concern…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the investigating, trial, sentence enforcement and secure detention courts

Article R*49-26

…stitutionality challenging, on the same grounds, a legislative provision already before the Cour de cassation or the Conseil constitutionnel. If the question is not referred on this ground, the court…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Medical monitoring of employees of the intermediary association.

Article R5132-26-6

The intermediary association monitors the health of people made available to a user by an inter-company occupational health service.

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-135

Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25(6) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the public prosecutor to whom the investigation has been referred refuses t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-137

When the European Public Prosecutor decides to refer the case to the national authorities pursuant to Article 34 of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the Deputy…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation and resources

Article R1233-26-4

The committee meets at least twice a year, convened by its chairman, on his or her own initiative or, within a maximum of two months, at the written request of the full representatives of this committ…

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