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Showing 341350 of 34930 articles for Art. CAA Paris 31-3-2016 n° 14PA02634

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Recognition of European investigation decisions

Article 694-31

…liability for press offences in the loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presseet de la loi n° 82-652 du 29 juillet 1982 sur la communication audiovisuelle; 3° If the decision relates to the t…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-310-3

Practitioners from other Member States of the European Union or the European Economic Area who have been granted partial access to the profession of midwife underarticle L. 4002-5 of the Public Health…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the conditions of transmission of samples to medical biology laboratories established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article D6221-31

The declaration provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 6211-2-1, as it stood prior to the entry into force of amended Order No. 2010-49 of 13 January 2010 relating to medical biology, shal…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Local investment funds

Article L214-31

I. - Local investment funds (fonds d'investissement de proximité) are venture capital investment funds (fonds communs de placement à risques), at least 70% of whose assets consist of financial securit…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Allocation of funds from the joint fund

Article D2135-31

In application of the provisions of 3° of article L. 2135-13, the fund allocates the credits between each of the organisations mentioned in 3° of article L. 2135-12 on the basis of their audience in a…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement

Article 728-31

Recognition and enforcement on French territory of a conviction handed down by the court of another Member State may be refused only in the cases provided for in Articles 728-32 and 728-33. The decisi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Exceptional aid to help offset the fall in activity in 2020

Article 919-31

The granting of exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of national framework scheme no. SA.59722 authorised by the European Commission by decisions of 9 December 2020, 20 May 2020 C(2020) 3460 a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-67

The maximum amount of advances that may be granted to a production company during a financial year is determined on the basis of the sum entered, at the beginning of the current year, in the audiovisu…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 8: Miscellaneous

Article A444-31

The recovery or collection service listed under number 128 of table 3-1 gives rise to the collection, of an emolument set as follows:

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Temporary work at a height

Article D4153-31

I.-It is forbidden to assign young people to the erection and dismantling of scaffolding. II -The prohibition referred to in I may be waived under the conditions and in the forms set out in section 3…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
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