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Showing 731740 of 32053 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 7-10-2015 n° 14-23.955 F-PBI

French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1466 A

…the zones franches urbaines-territoires entrepreneurs mentioned in B du 3 de l'article 42 de la loi n° 95-115 du 4 février 1995 d'orientation pour l'aménagement et le développement du territoire as we…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Lapse and cessation of activity

Article R1333-141

I.-The person in charge of a nuclear activity who wishes to permanently cease his activity shall inform the Nuclear Safety Authority.The permanent cessation of a nuclear activity subject to registrati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-146

Subscriptions and payments are evidenced by a certificate from the custodian drawn up, at the time the funds are deposited, on presentation of the subscription forms. Shares paid up by offsetting liqu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Conditions of practice

Article R743-141

When the court clerk performs the operations provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 143-11-7 of the French Labour Code, he shall receive the remuneration set for them by the tariff for judic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Allocation of the special profit-sharing reserve.

Article D3324-14

The sums remaining in the special employee profit-sharing reserve, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article L. 3324-7, may only give entitlement to the deductions and exemptions provided for in Art…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Agreement

Article R5132-10-10

If the employer fails to comply with the provisions of the agreement, the Prefect will inform the employer by registered letter of his intention to terminate the agreement. The employer is given a per…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bodies

Article R4021-14

The Management Board is composed equally of representatives of the professional sections defined in article R. 4021-15, appointed on their proposal by the Director General of the National Agency for P…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Insolvency proceedings concerning members of a group of companies established in several Member States

Article L694-7

The official receiver shall authorise, where appropriate, the communication of confidential documents between the mandataire de justice and the coordinator under the conditions set out in Article L. 6…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Insolvency proceedings concerning members of a group of companies established in several Member States

Article R694-7

For the purposes of implementing Article L. 694-8, the mandataire de justice who does not follow the recommendations of the collective coordination programme shall inform the juge-commissaire of his r…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article R2224-14

In wastewater agglomerations whose population and economic activities produce wastewater with a gross organic pollution load of more than 600 kg per day and whose discharges occur in a sensitive area…

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