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Showing 35813590 of 66453 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 19-9-2007 n° 06-15.295 and Cass. civ. 3-10-2019 n° 18-22.945 F-D

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Agreements between regional health agencies and health insurance organisations

Article R1434-18

The matter may be referred to the National Steering Committee of the Regional Health Agencies by one of its members or by a Director General of a Regional Health Agency in order to examine the difficu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The High Council of Statutory Auditors

Article R821-18

Information and documents received by the High Council in the context of cooperation with the competent authorities of other Member States of the European Union exercising competences similar to its o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for placing on the market and putting into service.

Article R5211-18

Medical devices which comply with the standards applicable to them, transposing the harmonised European standards, the references of which have been published in the Journal officiel de la République…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article L2411-18

…eliberations of the union commissions, which lay down the procedures for the management of property and the allocation of income. The union of sections, a legal entity governed by public law, is admin…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Management of copyright and related rights by an organisation

Article R329-18

…The beneficiary of the authorisation has a period of one month in which to present its observations and, where applicable, the measures it intends to take to comply. Withdrawal of authorisation is pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article R24-19

…e period in accordance with the procedures set out in the first four paragraphs of article R. 24-14 and if the condition set out in the first paragraph of Article R. 24-15 is always completed, without…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: International applications

Article L614-18

…al de la propriété industrielle then acts as a receiving office within the meaning of Articles 2-XV and 10 of the Washington Treaty.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Metropolitan France

Article L5217-18

…romulgation of Law no. 2014-58 of 27 January 2014 on the modernisation of territorial public action and the affirmation of metropolises, the provisions relating to the metropolises mentioned in the fo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-18

As soon as the reason for the stay of proceedings no longer exists, the criminal court will rule on the enforcement of the confiscation order. The public prosecutor shall inform the competent authorit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Periods of work experience in a professional environment

Article D5134-71-3

The body that prescribes the work placement in application of article L. 5135-2 sends the Agence de services et de paiement a copy of the agreement referred to in article D. 5135-2.

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