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Showing 40614070 of 59566 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 5-1-1999 n° 96-22.914

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Mutual credit

Article L512-56

Each caisse de crédit mutuel must belong to a regional federation and each regional federation must belong to the confédération nationale du crédit mutuel, whose articles of association are approved b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Obligations of establishments providing the public hospital service

Article R6112-5

I.-When an institution is designated by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency to carry out one of the actions mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of III of Article L. 6112-2, its multiannual contr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Institutional medical conference

Article R6164-5

The health care organisation's medical conference: 1° Proposes a programme of action that takes into account the analysis of undesirable events mentioned in article R. 6164-2. It includes the actions…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Economic aid

Article L2251-5

Locations, their groupings, the collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy and the collectivity of Saint-Martin may, under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, award subsidies to existing establishme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Territorial mental health project

Article R3224-5

I. - The priority of the territorial mental health project is to organise the conditions for the early identification of mental disorders, the development of a diagnosis and access to care and social…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-5

The provisions of Article 706-71 shall apply to the simultaneous execution, on the territory of the Republic and abroad, of requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities or acts of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Special housing allowance for primary school teachers

Article L2573-53

I. - The articles L. 2334-26 to L. 2334-30 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III.II. - For the application of article L. 2334-27, in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Aid for veterinary students

Article D1511-59

When they do not provide accommodation for students who are regularly enrolled in studies leading to the award of a veterinary training diploma or qualification mentioned in 1° of article L. 241-2 du…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Chronic renal failure.

Article R6123-55

Authorisation to implement or extend the healthcare activities referred to in Article L. 6122-1 may only be granted to health establishments treating chronic renal failure by means of extrarenal purif…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Regional committees for working conditions

Article L4641-5

Within the regional working conditions steering committee, the regional occupational health and prevention committee is made up of representatives of the State, the regional occupational health and re…

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