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Showing 761770 of 32584 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 9-7-2014 n° 13-15.948

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tests to verify knowledge

Article R4221-13

I. - Persons authorised to pursue a skills consolidation programme may, at their request, obtain a postponement of their assignment for up to eighteen months if, at the time when the Minister responsi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article D49-13

If the sentenced person is not incarcerated, the adversarial hearings provided for by Articles 712-6 and 712-7 are held in the judicial court. If the convicted person is imprisoned, these hearings are…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Determination of the debtor's assets.

Article R624-13

The application to revendicate an asset shall be sent within the period provided for in Article L. 624-9 by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the administrator if one has been appoi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Installation and operation of internal-use pharmacies

Article R5126-13

An in-house pharmacy may be authorised to serve several establishments, services or organisations mentioned in article R. 5126-1, provided that the dispensing of the medicinal products, products or ar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts.

Article R232-13

Within four months of the end of the first half of their financial year, companies whose shares are admitted, in whole or in part, to trading on a regulated market, shall attach and file with the Auto…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Sociétés civiles de placement immobilier (non-trading property investment companies), sociétés d'épargne forestière (forestry savings companies) and groupements forestiers d'investissement (forestry investment groups)

Article R214-138

I.-Subject to article R. 214-137, shareholders are convened to general meetings by a notice published in the Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires and by an ordinary letter sent to them personall…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: End of contract

Article R6152-718

A hospital practitioner on secondment under contract in application of 1° of article R. 6152-51 or 9° of article R. 6152-238 who wishes his secondment to be terminated before the term initially stipul…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VIa: Customs detention and criminal proceedings

Article L716-13

Natural persons guilty of one of the offences provided for in articles L. 716-9 and L. 716-10 may be ordered, at their own expense, to remove from commercial channels the objects deemed to be infringi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R5121-97

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé shall register the homeopathic medicinal products referred to in Article L. 5121-13 and the traditional…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R5121-98

The Director General of the Agency will take a decision within two hundred and ten days of the submission of a complete application. He may ask the applicant, in a letter stating the reasons for the r…

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