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Showing 24012410 of 3114 articles for Art. CA Versailles 25 octobre 1990

French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 decies

…are authorised to deduct from the tax contributions due by them in respect of their installations located in the zone monitored by the measurement network of these organisations the contributions or d…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Ski lifts and ski runs.

Article L342-26-1

When the easement instituted in application of articles L. 342-20 to L. 342-23 is likely to seriously compromise the agricultural or forestry use of the encumbered land, its owner(s) may, from the dat…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Calculation of sums entered in the automatic online broadcast account

Article 612-12

…ubscription on-demand audiovisual media services, the breakdown method used by the publisher to allocate a turnover to each work, which must be justified by the publisher, must in particular take acco…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-81

…tence Enforcement Court. In accordance with the first sentence of the last paragraph of Article 706-25-18, the person concerned by the judicial measure to prevent terrorist recidivism and reintegratio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Implementation of the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-24

…t comply with all the following obligations: 1° The salaried director of the operator and the healthcare professionals in charge of carrying out the operations provided for in the programme have no pr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Use for professional retraining projects

Article D4163-30-3

…ional cross-industry joint committee will examine the employee's file. It will ensure that the application for funding complies with the conditions for access set out in article D. 4163-30-1 and that…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Regional health plan zones

Article R1434-30

The areas of the regional health plan giving rise to the distribution of healthcare activities and heavy equipment defined in 2° of the I of article L. 1434-3 are delimited by the Director General of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Terms and conditions

Article D6154-10-3

…centres ; 2° Procedures other than imaging, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and biology procedures: 25% for university hospital centres, 16% for hospital centres; 3° Imaging, radiotherapy, nuclear med…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-3-1

I. - Any person who is the subject of an identity check or verification as provided for in this chapter may, where this check or verification reveals that there are serious grounds for believing that…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART FOUR

Article Annexe 41-2

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