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Showing 88118820 of 33006 articles for Art. CJEU – C-48/16 – 17 May 2017

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: National register of persons prohibited from managing assets

Article L128-1

…ent or ruling pronouncing the measure.This file shall be governed by this chapter and by law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Qualified employees

Article L421-12

…ve years in the territory of a Member State of the European Union under cover of an identical card, may be issued with a resident card bearing the words "long-term resident-EU" for a period of ten yea…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Interests specific to certain categories of residents

Article L2573-58

…ided for in II to VI.II. - For the application of Article L. 2411-5, references to Articles L. 2113-17 et L. 2113-23 are replaced by the reference to Article L. 2113-23.III. - For the application of A…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Drawing up electoral rolls.

Article R713-41

The electoral roll commission is called upon to complete the list of persons who meet the condition set by Article L. 723-4 to be eligible for election to the office of commercial court judge in elect…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Electronic voting.

Article D4233-12

…egard to the creation of said data processing operations under the conditions defined by Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended, relating to data processing, data files and individual liberties.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial and statistical monitoring

Article R5134-19

…persons mentioned in Article L. 5212-13; 10° The data mentioned in 2°, 3° and 4° of article R. 5134-17.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1a: Personnel management

Article D712-11-1

…ns the national staff representative body provided for in V of Article 40 of Law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019, amended by the article 16 of law no. 2022-172 of 14 February 2022; - the term "network" re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-20

…meet the following criteria: 1° They meet one of the conditions set out in 1° of article R. 214-32-17 and the criteria set out in 2° and 3° of the same article; 2° Appropriate information concerning…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D6211-1

…n system or is integrated into this clinical-biological protocol through his professional practice, may directly take the samples corresponding to the medical biology examinations thus prescribed.When…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1. Transferable securities, company rights and similar securities

Article 150-0 B bis

…bution in the special capital gains declaration and in the declaration provided for in 1 of article 170, within the time limit applicable to these declarations.

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