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Showing 211220 of 33006 articles for Art. CJEU – C-48/16 – 17 May 2017

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-48

…by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution as credit institutions, these subsidiaries may neither receive guaranteed deposits within the meaning of Article L. 312-4 nor provide payment s…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R623-48

…letter with acknowledgement of receipt.Sending by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt may be replaced by delivering the letter to the addressee against a receipt, at the headquarters of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Time limits for expert appraisals

Article R2315-48

…ngle expert appraisal report is drawn up. The expert appointed by the Social and Economic Committee may call on the expertise of one or more other experts for some of the work required by the expert r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Payment

Article R6341-48

…t, or by the President of the Regional Council. Exceptionally, a partial or total remission of debt may be granted, depending on the case, by the Prefect, the Agence de Services et de Paiement or the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
3. Holidays.

Article R6152-48

Hospital practitioners covered by these regulations may be placed by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, after consultation with the head of the unit and the head of the department, or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Special provisions for certain investigative measures

Article 694-48

…unication in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 706-71, the judge hearing the case may, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 694-31, refuse to execute the request if it conc…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Appeals against decisions by the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority

Article R331-48

A cross-appeal may be lodged even if its author is precluded from lodging a main appeal. However, in the latter case, the cross-appeal will not be admissible if it is lodged more than one month after…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous and transitional provisions

Article L1424-48

On the date of promulgation of the loi n° 96-369 du 3 mai 1996 relative aux services d'incendie et de secours, the departmental fire and rescue service whose creation is provided for in Article L. 142…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures and arrangements

Article D1413-48

Only those organisations may be designated as national centres of reference:1° which undertake to fulfil the missions mentioned in article D. 1413-46 and specified in the general specifications and in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-48

The employer may, at the request of certain employees, set up a system of individualised working hours allowing hours to be carried over from one week to another, within the limits and according to th…

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