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Showing 42314240 of 10664 articles for Art. CJEU – Pronuptia – Case 161/84 – 28 Jan. 1986

French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 6: Publication of the register

Article A123-66

Copies of the trade and companies register may be issued electronically. In this case, it is specified that only a signed document is authentic. For this issue the registrars shall comply with the pro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Transfers of property, rights and obligations

Article R5215-15

…tifies the interested parties of this substitution, in accordance with the rules applicable to each case, and pursues, where appropriate, the proceedings in progress, in accordance with the procedural…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4226-4

…tion of electrical energy governed by the law of 15 June 1906 on the distribution of energy. In the case of electrical traction installations, this exclusion extends to the extension, conversion and m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: First and second category operations.

Article R4532-59

In the case of a building construction operation, the coordinator shall communicate to the other contractors the specific health and safety plans of the contractors responsible for the shell work or t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of doctors.

Article R4127-18

A doctor may only carry out a voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the cases and under the conditions laid down by law; he or she is always free to refuse to do so and must inform the person concern…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article R5122-24

…e event of a dispute relating to a claim for compensation, the corresponding data is kept until the case is finally settled. The recording, use, storage and transmission of such data shall be carried…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Fees charged by bailiffs

Article A444-43

…ce (table 3-3 of article appendix 4-7)Description of the serviceFee 151 Request for information. 21.28 € 152 Copies of the documents accompanying the docket attached to the summons, per 100 sheets 21.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 175-1

…n accordance with the procedures set out in the tenth paragraph of of Article 81, to order that the case be referred or indicted to the trial court or to declare that there are no grounds to proceed,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Decisions on public action

Article 367

…detention, he shall be released immediately if he is not being held for any other reason. In other cases, if the accused is sentenced to a term of criminal imprisonment as long as the judgment is not…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 398-2

…he document referred to it does not fall within the provisions of Article 398-1, it shall refer the case to the criminal court sitting under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph of Artic…

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