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Showing 64116420 of 23743 articles for Art. Cass. 13 March 2008 – counterfeit as dispossession

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional transplant activities referred to in Article L. 162-30-5 of the Social Security Code

Article R6123-84-1

…virtue of their duties, under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code.

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Compliance with the Code of Ethics

Article R8124-32

…ice to the powers of the ethics officer provided for in article 28 bis of the aforementioned Act of 13 July 1983, employees involved in labour inspection activities may refer to the Conseil national d…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Medical centres and mobile care teams of the armed forces health service

Article R6326-3

…armed forces pharmaceutical services, the activities mentioned in articles R. 6326-1 and R. 6326-2, as well as the supply of armed forces health service medical centres by the wholesale distributors m…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Metallic coins

Article R734-3

…he same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 121-3 and R. 121-4No. 2013-383 of 6 May 2013II. - For the application of I:1° Article R. 121-3 reads as follows:"Art. R. 121…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Unavailability, pledges, enforceability

Article A444-16

…33 € 63 Service on creditors of deed of pledge of plant and equipment 25.53 € 64 Deed of seizure of assets placed in a safe deposit box 37.23 € 65 Act of seizure and sale of movable tangible property…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General rules

Article L2112-4

The purchaser may require that the resources used to execute all or part of a contract, or to maintain or modernise the products acquired, be located within the territory of the Member States of the E…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Exclusions at the buyer's discretion

Article L2141-9

The purchaser may exclude from the procedure for awarding a contract those persons in respect of whom he has sufficient evidence or a body of serious, reliable and concordant evidence to deduce that t…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Rules specific to public contracts for rail passenger transport services

Article L2522-1

…twithstanding article L. 2500-1, the public contracts mentioned in 4° of article L. 2512-5, insofar as they relate to the public rail passenger transport service, are governed, for their award and per…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Transmission and receipt of invoices in electronic form

Article L2392-3

Without prejudice to Article L. 2392-2, the State and its public establishments accept invoices that comply with the electronic invoicing standard defined by regulation and sent in electronic form by…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Disclosure of criteria and implementation procedures

Article R2152-12

…procedure, the award criteria shall be weighted or, where weighting is not possible for objective reasons, shall be indicated in descending order of importance. The weighting may be expressed as a ran…

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