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Showing 701710 of 8668 articles for Art. CE 21-12-2022 n° 459476

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

Article L5211-21

…the flat-rate tourist tax on their own behalf, and whose deliberation instituting this tax is in force, may oppose the decision mentioned in the first paragraph of this I by a deliberation taken withi…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 849-21

…Where the court grants a request for substitution of a defaulting claimant, it shall rule, upon receipt of submissions to that effect, on the transfer of all or part of the advance that may have bee…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Mergers, demergers and partial contributions of assets between associations

Article 30-21

…among the auditors registered on the list provided for in I de l'article L. 822-1 du code de commerce ou parmi les experts inscrits sur une des listes établies par les cours et tribunaux.They are app…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Receipt of applications for recognition and monitoring of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-21

Within seven days of receiving the request, the public prosecutor shall refer the matter to the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge pursuant to Article 712-10 of the request, together w…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Cooperation with the Commission de Régulation de l'Energie and the bodies responsible for physical agricultural markets

Article L621-21

…each other. They shall provide each other with any information that may be useful for the performance of their respective duties.The Autorité des marchés financiers shall refer to the Commission de r…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Nature and representativeness of the association

Article R513-21

…iation referred to in I of Article L. 513-3 is a not-for-profit association with its registered office in France.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Capital increase.

Article L3332-21

…on the capital increase may provide for the free allocation of shares or other securities giving access to the capital. The total benefit resulting from this allocation and, where applicable, from th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Financing

Article L4163-21

…branch of the general scheme and that of the agricultural workers' scheme, each insofar as it is concerned. The procedures for covering the costs of the uses referred to in I of article L. 4163-7 are…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Decision to award employability assistance.

Article L5134-21

…s governed by private law;4° Legal persons under private law responsible for managing a public service;5° Cooperative societies of collective interest.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contributions and allowances

Article L5424-21

Workers who are unemployed and who have exhausted their unemployment insurance rights under the specific provisions relating to performing artists and to workers and technicians in sound recording, fi…

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