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Showing 121130 of 64636 articles for Art. CE 12-5-2022 n° 416727 and CE 27-3-2020 n° 428234

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Proof of immediate payment of the parking charge

Article R2333-120-3

…payment of the parking charge gives rise to the issue of a printed or electronically transmitted receipt. This receipt includes the following information: a) The date and time of printing or transmis…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-27

By way of derogation from article 231-26, the classification, labels and aid, as well as, where applicable, the direct allocations provided for in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Officials and agents authorised to investigate forestry offences

Article 27

The gardes champêtres send their reports and minutes simultaneously to the mayor and, through the intermediary of the territorially competent national police or gendarmerie judicial police officers, t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Investigation

Article R2333-120-39

When the Commission's registry notifies the applicant that his or her application can, as it stands, only be rejected as inadmissible, the applicant is deemed to have waived his or her right of action…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Investigation

Article R2333-120-38

When the application is registered, the Chairman of the Commission appoints the rapporteur responsible for investigating the application.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Organisation and operation

Article R6123-3-12

The Regional Committee for Employment, Vocational Training and Guidance adopts its own rules of procedure, which set out the organisation of its work.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-12-3

Investment service providers other than portfolio management companies which provide the investment service referred to in Article L. 321-1 .4 shall not accept, unless they return them in full to the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Remuneration policy and practices

Article L533-30-12

In investment firms of significant importance in terms of their size and according to criteria relating to the level of remuneration of the individual, the payment of a portion at least equal to 40% o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Operating rules.

Article D214-32-12

…whose disposal would not be in the interests of the shareholders pursuant to Article L. 214-24-33, and the new SICAV have the same portfolio management company, the same custodian and the same audito…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Presentation of the request

Article R2333-120-30

…etition.The petition must be submitted on a form, the model of which is laid down by order of the vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat.It must contain all the information requested in the relevant sec…

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