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Showing 41414150 of 7942 articles for Art. CE 28-12-2012 n° 347252

French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Penalties for intermediaries

Article L354-4

…ICLES IN THE WAY THEY THEY ARE WRITTEN L. 342-1 and L. 342-4 to L. 342-6 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Sharing

Article 749 A

…shares of built-up property, groups of built-up properties or property complexes subject to the loi n° 65-557 modifiée du 10 juillet 1965 fixant le statut de la copropriété des immeubles bâtis, et la…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IX: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 1125 bis

Deeds and documents of any kind relating exclusively to the reconstruction provided for by the loi n° 71-1029 du 24 décembre 1971 of registers or documents kept in the registries of commercial courts…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Syndicate of communes

Article L5212-17

…ions of article L. 5212-16 to unions existing on 6 January 1988, the date of publication of the loi n° 88-13 du 5 janvier 1988 d'amélioration de la décentralisation, if the municipal councils of the m…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to municipalities resulting from a merger with 100,000 inhabitants or less

Article R2113-20

…ne to complete, under the conditions provided for in article L. 2113-23 as it read prior to the loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales, the consultative commis…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Aid schemes established by intergovernmental agreements

Article 711-1

Financial aid is awarded within the framework defined by the agreement between the government of the French Republic and the government of the Federal Republic of Germany on support for film co-produc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Compensation for pre-trial detention

Article R31

…he State shall file his submissions with the registry of the court of appeal within two months of receipt of the registered letter provided for in Article R. 28. The clerk's office of the court of app…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Rules specific to contracts with a particular purpose

Article R224-70

…ving machines, as defined in 6.15 of article R. 311-1 of the Highway Code: a) Folding systems; b) Accelerator triggers; c) Hulls; d) Engines; e) Batteries; f) Chargers; g) Controllers; h) Control card…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L3334-1

The départements receive a flat-rate allocation, an equalisation allocation and a compensation allocation. All of these sums evolve in the same way as the overall operating allocation distributed.In 2…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-6

For its application in Wallis and Futuna, Article L. 5124-13 is replaced by the following provisions:Art. L. 5124-13 -The import of medicinal products for human use and the import and export of gene t…

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