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Showing 56415650 of 25879 articles for Art. CE 7-5-1986 n° 39426

French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R356-55

…l. This report also contains information on the legal structure of the group, its system of governance and its organisational structure, including a presentation of all subsidiaries, material affiliat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R50-54

Pursuant to Article 706-25-10, the file manager shall send the Ministry of the Interior daily notices of new initial entries as provided for in Article 706-25-7, address changes relating to a registra…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operating rules

Article D214-5

…portfolio management company, the same custodian and the same auditor. The new SICAV intended to receive assets other than those mentioned in the first paragraph is of the same type as the SICAV invo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-5

…health agency organises, under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, the public service mission of permanence of care mentioned in article L. 6314-1. Its procedures, drawn up in associa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Self-employed persons, members of the liberal professions and the self-employed.

Article L6331-50

…odies referred to in Articles L. 213-1 and L. 752-4 of the Social Security Code and are paid to France Compétences, up to the ceiling provided for inArticle 46 of Law No. 2011-1977 of 28 December 2011…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 212-5

…r animated film that meets the following conditions:1° It must have been released in cinemas in France during the year preceding the application;2° It must have been produced under production conditio…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for exercising the right to vote and stand for election and rules applicable to the conduct of the ballot for the election of members to the board of directors of the Ecole nationale des sports de montagne and to the advisory boards of the Ecole nationale de ski et d'alpinisme and the Centre national de ski nordique et de moyenne montagne

Article A211-51

Full members of staff and non-full members of staff who have completed at least twelve months' service under contracts signed during the last two years on the date of the ballot and who are working in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Access to personal health information.

Article R1111-5

When, in the circumstances provided for in the fourth paragraph of article L. 1111-7, the holder of the information gathered in the context of involuntary hospitalisation or hospitalisation at the req…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R5124-5

The procedures for submitting and examining applications for authorisation to open, for modification of initial authorisations and for transfer of authorisations to open, as provided for in Articles R…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Secondment.

Article R6152-59

…practitioner is reinstated :1° Either, by right, to his post if the period of secondment has not exceeded six months or one year if the practitioner was seconded pursuant to 3° of article R. 6152-51…

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