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Showing 37413750 of 27388 articles for Art. CJEU – C-828/18 – 4 June 2020

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Categories of incidents, terms and conditions for reporting significant or serious information systems security incidents

Article D1111-16-4

For the purposes of this sub-section, the health establishments, organisations and services carrying out prevention, diagnosis or care activities mentioned in article D. 1111-16-2 and medico-social es…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to the resolution of banking crises

Article R613-46-6

I.-Pursuant to X of Article L. 613-44, the persons referred to in Article L. 613-34 shall communicate: 1° The amounts of own funds which, where applicable, satisfy the conditions referred to in 2° of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article L3335-4

…de-France region and the per capita financial potential of the department defined in article L. 3334-6. The population taken into account is that defined in article L. 3334-2;2° Ratio between the ave…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-28-4

…s C of the General Tax Code is a signatory to a city contract as defined in article 6 of law no. 2014-173 of 21 February 2014 on programming for cities and urban cohesion, it must, by deliberation, ad…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constitution.

Article R322-47

…ese contributions must be paid in full prior to the declaration provided for in Article R. 322-51 ; 4° Indicate the method of remuneration of the management or management board and, if applicable, of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article R613-45

…by all of them;2° Be accompanied by proof of payment of the prescribed fee;3° Cover only one patent;4° Be accompanied, if rights in rem, pledges or licences have been entered in the National Patent Re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Regional health agency.

Article L6431-4

…to account the health priorities established by the health conference provided for in article L. 1524-1. This programme focuses in particular on protecting the health of mothers, young children, schoo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Creation and content of the shared medical file

Article R1111-40

The shared medical record referred to in article L. 1111-14 is created by the Caisse nationale de l'assurance maladie when the digital health space referred to in article L. 1111-13-1 is opened. The h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Revitalisation by companies subject to the obligation to offer redeployment leave

Article D1233-41

…icles L. 1233-86 and L. 1237-19-11;3° The start date for the implementation of each of the measures;4° The procedures for monitoring and evaluating the measures.The company shall send a report on the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Single risk assessment document

Article R4121-4

…e occupational risk assessment document and its earlier versions are kept available for a period of 40 years from the date of their preparation: 1° Workers and former workers for the versions in force…

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