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Showing 66916700 of 10201 articles for Art. CE 29-9-1989 n° 68212

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-24

…institutions referred to in Articles L. 511-22 and L. 511-23 and their branches established in France are subject to the following provisions of this chapter and the regulatory provisions adopted for…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-43

…ncreased: 1° By one month, when the claim is brought: a) Either before a court whose registered office is in mainland France, for parties residing in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Reunion, Ma…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health surveillance, safety and policing

Article R1435-1

…f 29 April 2004, the regional health agency implements the actions, including inspections, and services necessary for the departmental prefect to exercise his powers in the fields of health monitoring…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Minimum operating grant.

Article R3334-3

La dotation de fonctionnement minimale instituée par l'article L. 3334-7 est attribué aux départements métropolitains qui en remplissent les conditions d'attribution dans les conditions définies à l'a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of the business start-up or takeover support programme

Article R5141-31

If the application is accepted, the operator, acting on behalf of the State, will enter into a support contract with the person, indicating which of the three phases defined in article R. 5141-29 is t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Articles of association, share capital, shares.

Article R4381-34

…hether movable or immovable, and in particular the right for a partner to present the company as successor to his clientele, or, if he is the successor of a deceased nurse, to the clientele of the dec…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Dispensing on the basis of a prescription in non-proprietary names.

Article R5125-55

Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles R. 5132-4 and R. 5132-29, a prescription expressed as a non-proprietary name pursuant to Article L. 5125-23 and as defined in Article R. 5121-1 must inc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R6223-13

Without prejudice to the provisions of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies and of this section relating to the information that they must contain, the com…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 157

…gion which meet the following conditions:a. Their nature is directly related to the investment financed;b. Their amount over the life of the loan does not exceed 5% of the issue price.4° Pensions, ben…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The council of the communauté de communes.

Article L5214-8

…ommunauté de communes.For the application of article L. 2123-11-2, the monthly amount of the allowance is at most equal to 80% or, from the seventh month following the start of payment of the allowanc…

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