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Showing 48714880 of 9058 articles for Art. CE 24-11-2017 n° 396209

French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L531-19

The transcript is communicated, at their request, to the person concerned or their lawyer or the association's representative before a decision is taken on the application.Where the accelerated proced…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-5

The mayor may, by reasoned order, prohibit access to certain roads or sections of roads for vehicles transporting hazardous materials covered by Council Directive 82/501 of 24 June 1982 on the major a…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Single chapter

Article L641-1

…egislative part of this Code are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands: 1° Book I, with the exception of 6° of Article…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Composition and content of the plan

Article R4251-4

…determined, in particular, with regard to identified daily travel needs between home and the workplace. They are aimed at: - the articulation between the different modes of travel, particularly with r…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title III: PENALTIES

Article R132-1

Refusals to sell or provide services, in disregard of the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 121-11, are punishable by the fine laid down for 5th class offences. Recidivism is punishable…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Terms of office of board or committee members

Article R5211-5-1

The provisions of articles R. 2123-11-1 to R. 2123-11-6 and the articles R. 2123-22-1-A to R. 2123-22-1-D are applicable to public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax stat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5a: On the transmission and enforcement of freezing orders pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 on the mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation orders

Article 695-9-30-2

It shall be carried out under the conditions laid down in articles 695-9-22 and 695-9-24 of this Code for the application of Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information for borrowers

Article L341-26

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph, a creditor who grants credit without providing the borrower with the European Standardised Information Sheet referred to in Article L. 313-7 and the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Industrial property qualification

Article R421-3

As stated in Article R. 79 of the Code of Criminal Procedure: (...) bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record is issued: (....) 24° To the Director General of the Institut national de la propriété industr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Voting and electoral operations.

Article R723-25

…is also open to the prefect and the public prosecutor, who may exercise it within fifteen days of receipt of the minutes mentioned in article R. 723-22.

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