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Showing 96519660 of 18068 articles for Art. CJEU – Euronics Belgium – 8 March 2013 – C-343/12

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals

Article D1242-1

…nt, cultural activities, audiovisual, cinematographic production and sound recording; 7° Education; 8° Information, survey and polling activities; 9° Meat storage and warehousing;10° Building and publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Medicinal products subject to registration.

Article R5121-146

…The expiry date in plain language; 6° The pharmaceutical form; 7° The capacity of the sales model; 8° Where applicable, special storage precautions; 9° A special warning, if required for the medicina…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisations

Article R6122-25

…sive care ;4° Psychiatry ;5° Medical and rehabilitation care;6° Nuclear medicine ;7° Long-term care;8° Organ transplants and haematopoietic cell transplants, with the exception of exceptional transpla…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
APPENDIX TO BOOK II

Article

…matographic works gives rise to cash payments made, under the conditions provided for in articles 238 bis HE to 238 bis HM of the General Tax Code, by the companies for the financing of the cinematogr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Income tax deducted at source

Article 204 B

Subject to the derogations provided for in article 204 C, income subject to income tax in accordance with the rules applicable to salaries, pensions or life annuities free of charge shall give rise to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Interventional radiology activities

Article D6124-247

For activities falling under categories B, C and D as provided for in Article R. 6123-166, the authorisation holder must ensure that the equipment used to expose patients to ionising radiation is conn…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Civil penalties

Article R761-1

The formalities of articles R. 721-2, R. 742-12 and R. 742-16 are time-barred on pain of inadmissibility of the claim.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Remote electronic voting

Article R2122-61

Any elector for whom all the information mentioned in article R. 2122-12 is known may vote by remote electronic means.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Tasks and scope of application

Article L612-1

…IX of the Social Security Code, the Mutual Code, Book III of the Consumer Code, Articles 26-4 to 26-8 of Law 65-557 of 10 July 1965 establishing the status of condominiums, approved codes of conduct a…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Preliminary book: MIXED PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Article L2000-3

Where a purchaser decides to conclude a contract which covers both services which fall within the scope of public contracts governed by Books I, II or III of this Part and services which do not fall w…

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