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Showing 79217930 of 14964 articles for Art. CE 23-7-2010 n° 313445

French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Collective bargaining - Collective labour agreements.

Article L2622-3

A decree sets the number of representatives of employers' professional organisations and employees' trade union organisations provided for in Articles L. 23-111-1 and L. 23-112-1 in Saint-Barthélemy a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-16-1

Access by a delegated sports federation to personal information relating to gambling transactions, with a view to the implementation of a possible sanction procedure against a player in a sports compe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Psychiatric care arrangements

Article R3844-11

…ia, in the version resulting from decree no. 2014-897 of 15 August 2014 relating to the judicial procedure for the release and review of non-consensual psychiatric care measures. Articles R. 3211-7 to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Property and property investment by public health institutions

Article R6148-1

…d, the public health establishment or health cooperation structure with public legal personality concerned shall carry out a study to assess the short, medium and long-term consequences of the operati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to preventive group resolution plans

Article L613-40

…contingency plans, where appropriate jointly with the resolution authorities of the subsidiaries concerned and after consultation, where appropriate, with the resolution authorities of significant bra…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Capital gains realised by companies

Article 248 E

…ities, mentioned in Articles 5 and 6 of Law no. 86-912 of 6 August 1986 or the profit participation certificates referred to in amended Article 1 of the same law, appear on the balance sheet of a comp…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-19

…aragraph repealed); 3° (Paragraph repealed); 4°A foreigner who has actually performed military services in a unit of the French army or who, in wartime, has contracted a voluntary enlistment in the Fr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Development of marine resources.

Article L4433-16

…oupe and Réunion, aid granted by the State before 3 August 1984, the date of publication of the loi n° 84-747 du 2 août 1984 relative aux compétences des régions de Guadeloupe, de Guyane, de Martiniqu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-68

…of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, as well as the legal entities providing services mentioned in the loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique; 2°…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Portage salarial

Article L1255-16

…n Articles L. 1254-4 and L. 1254-5 ; 3° Failing to enter into a commercial contract with the freelance administration company for the provision of freelance administration services within the period s…

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