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Showing 64216430 of 60652 articles for Art. CISG adopted 11 April 1980 – in force for France 1 January 1988

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Expertise procedure for medical accidents

Article L1142-12

The Regional Commission appoints a panel of experts from the national list of medical accident experts, ensuring that these experts meet all the conditions required to guarantee their independence fro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Expertise procedure for medical accidents

Article L1142-13

For their application to the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the powers devolved by article L. 1142-5 to the regional commission for conciliation and compensation of medical acci…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Expertise procedure for medical accidents

Article L1142-10

A National Commission for Medical Accidents, attached to the Ministers of Justice and Health, made up of health professionals, user representatives and qualified persons and whose chairman is appointe…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Special provisions for overseas departments.

Article L214-1

Decrees in the Conseil d'Etat will set the date of entry into force and the procedures for applying or adapting Chapters I and II to the overseas departments and to Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article L356-15

1° Supervision of the solvency of the group is exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Section and Sections II, IV, V and VI of this Chapter; 2° In the case of group supervision referred t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article L356-16

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, in its capacity as group supervisor, may impose a capital add-on to the group Solvency Capital Requirement where it considers that the risk profil…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article L356-17

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall supervise risk concentration and intra-group transactions at group level in accordance with the provisions of Sections II, IV, V and VI of th…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: Attachment of property for payment

Article L211-1

Any creditor in possession of a writ of execution evidencing a debt due and payable may, in order to obtain payment, seize the debtor's claims for a sum of money from a third party, subject to the spe…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Conversion to attachment for payment

Article R523-10

…R. 211-7, R. 211-8, R. 211-9,…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Administrative fine for late payment

Article L2192-15

The public undertakings defined in II ofArticle 1 of Order no. 2004-503 of 7 June 2004 transposing Directive 80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and the contrac…

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