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Showing 20212030 of 19750 articles for Art. CE 25-5-1988 n° 81512

French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Sports associations

Article R121-5

…to article L. 131-8 may be withdrawn by the Prefect of the département in which its registered office is located in the event of : 1° Non-compliance of the articles of association with the conditions…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Start-up grant for self-employed activity

Article D5213-53

…rker must satisfy the following conditions: 1° They must not have been convicted of any of the offences listed in Chapter VIII of Title II of Book I of the French Commercial Code; 2° They must meet al…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title VI: Criminal provisions

Article R162-5

…525-8 or a bureau de change, fails to withdraw from circulation, prior to issuing euro banknotes received from the public, banknotes which he has sufficient reason to believe to be counterfeit; An em…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registration upon declaration

Article A123-51

…the Trade and Companies Register by virtue of the registration of commercial companies, with the exception of statutory auditors; 3° The managers of European economic interest groupings, natural pers…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Filing and registration of the declaration

Article R6351-5

…first vocational training contract provided for in article L. 6353-3, or, if applicable, an apprenticeship contract when the company has a company apprentice training centre mentioned in I of article…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-5

In the event of a conviction based on one of the offences defined in articles L. 335-2 to L. 335-4-2, the court may order the total or partial, permanent or temporary closure, for a maximum period of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Admission to psychiatric care at the request of a third party or in the event of imminent danger

Article L3212-5

I.-The director of the reception facility shall immediately forward to the State representative in the department or, in Paris, to the police prefect, and to the departmental commission for psychiatri…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title V: Provisions relating to the Central Pricing Office.

Article R250-5

Decisions of the Central Pricing Board are taken by a majority of the members present. In the event of a tie, the chairman has the casting vote. For each of the formations mentioned in 1° to 5° of Art…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-57

…nts used by undertakings: a) In which, on the one hand, the undertaking has invested an amount in excess of 0.5% of the dispersion base defined in the first paragraph of Article R. 332-3 and in which,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-54

…samples held; 3° The origin of the samples and how they were obtained; 4° The sample preparation procedures; 5° The research project; 6° Depending on the cases provided for in Article L. 1211-2, detai…

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