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Showing 94819490 of 30455 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. avis 20-10-2022 n° 22-70.011 B

French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-Paragraph 3: Acts relating mainly to contracts and agreements concerning real estate and landed property

Article A444-115

Services relating to joint ownership or easements (numbers 92 and 93 of table 5) give rise, to the collection of:1° In the event of the creation, amending agreement or transfer of joint ownership or e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4322-1

…treatment of :a) Mechanical or non-mechanical hyperkeratoses, of various aetiologies or locations ;b) Plantar warts ;c) Ingrown toenails, mechanical or non-mechanical onychopathies and other epiderma…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Foreign nationals receiving a pension for an accident at work or occupational disease

Article L426-6

A foreign national who receives a pension for an accident at work or occupational disease paid by a French organisation and whose permanent disability rate is equal to or greater than 20% will be issu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 7: General training common to mountain sports teaching, supervision and training professions

Article A212-172

…raining common to the teaching, supervision and training professions in mountain sports is assessed by means of a three-hour written test, covering all the subjects covered during the training, as men…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 421-14

…1° Have signed an audiovisual production contract with one or more authors;2° Make a personal contribution to financing the development of the project, by making a cash contribution equal to at least…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
15°: Transactions in the capital of companies with public shareholdings

Article 1136

Transactions carried out by the State and governed by Title III of Ordinance no. 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 relating to the governance and capital transactions of companies with public shareholdings d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions adapting Book II.

Article L942-4

…articles L. 225-25 and L. 225-72, the reference to articles 20 and 21 of law no. 88-1201 of 23 December 1988 relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities and creating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The decision on the admissibility of the application and the examination of the conditions of detention

Article R249-21

…he application sent to him in accordance with article R. 249-20, the judge shall rule on its admissibility by means of a reasoned order in accordance with the second and third paragraphs of I of artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Classes of affected parts

Article R626-63

The thresholds set pursuant to a of 5° of Article L. 626-32 are: 1° 250 employees and 20 million euros in net sales; or 2° 40 million euros in net sales. These thresholds are assessed on the date of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Capital grants (R).

Article D5212-8

Equipment grants awarded by the State for operations undertaken by multi-purpose intercommunal syndicates, which meet the conditions set by article D. 5212-9, are increased by 20% without the total gr…

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