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Showing 46414650 of 33006 articles for Art. CJEU – C-48/16 – 17 May 2017

French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Supplementary provisions

Article D3142-35

In the absence of an agreement referred to in article L. 3142-52, the employee shall inform the employer by any means giving a date certain, at least 48 hours before the start of the leave, of his wis…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of organs, tissues or cells for therapeutic purposes

Article R1522-1

Title I of Book II of this Part is applicable to Wallis and Futuna, with the exception of Articles R. 1211-1 to R. 1211-11, R. 1211-25 to R. 1211-28-1 and R. 1211-48.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single chapter: Treatment of over-indebtedness

Article L771-2

…ableau : ARTICLES APPLICABLES DANS LE RÉDACTIONUR L. 711-1 and L. 711-2 Resulting from law no. 2022-172 of 14 February 2022 in favour of independent professional activity L. 711-3 and L. 711-6 Resulti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: General provisions relating to elections to the disciplinary boards of New Caledonia and French Polynesia

Article D4443-22

…m of office of the members of the Disciplinary Board, as set out in articles D. 4443-16 and D. 4443-17;5° The conditions and formalities required to be a voter, eligible and candidate in application o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Innovation mutual funds

Article L214-30

…nd i of 1 bis of I of Article 885-0 V bis of the French General Tax Code as it stood on 31 December 2017, which have not repaid all or part of any contributions over the past twelve months and which m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Data processing carried out by the Agence de la biomédecine

Article R2143-15

…ey make use of the right provided for in Article L. 2143-2. II.-The persons whose data is processed may exercise their right of access to the data concerning them, as provided for in Article 15 of Reg…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: French Health Products Safety Agency.

Article L5523-1

…mits of the provisions of this Code made applicable to Wallis and Futuna.In other cases, the Agency may enter into agreements with the competent authorities of Wallis and Futuna.Article L. 5311-1 is a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title III: Rules relating to life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A134-6

…whose synthetic risk indicator, referred to in Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2017/653 of 8 March 2017, is less than or equal to 2. For vehicles for which a synthetic risk indica…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Trainee foreign nationals

Article R426-18

In the case provided for in 1° of article R. 426-16, the duration of the traineeship may not exceed six months where it relates to vocational training.In the case provided for in 2° of article R. 426-…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: The institution and its missions

Article R741-5

…registrars relating to entries made in the legal publicity registers for which they are responsible may be disseminated electronically under the conditions set out in this article: a) The information…

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