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Showing 14211430 of 56268 articles for Art. Cass. 1e civ. 4-2-2015 n° 14-10.920

French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 7 : Nature of the tests leading to the award of the three-degree state diploma for sports instructors at the end of a modular training course

Article A212-142

Subject to the provisions of specific decrees, the selection test is organised in the form of one or more level assessment tests under the responsibility of the regional director of youth, sport and c…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: The European order for payment.

Article 1424-9

The court shall rule on the application for recovery. It shall hear, within the limits of its jurisdiction of attribution, the initial claim and all incidental claims and defences on the merits. In th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable premises

Article 1407 bis

Municipalities other than those referred to in Article 232 may, by a deliberation taken under the conditions provided for in Article 1639 A bis, make dwellings that have been vacant for more than two…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1464 D

I.-Communes or their public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status may, by a deliberation of general scope taken under the conditions defined in Article 1639 A bis, ex…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to minimum capital requirements and eligible commitments

Article R613-46-2

I.-The minimum requirement referred to in IV of Article L. 613-44 shall be met by means of one or more of the following commitments or own funds: 1° Commitments: a) which are issued to the resolution…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Distribution and transmission of electricity (R).

Article R3333-4-2

The fees payable each year to a department for the temporary occupation of its public domain by work sites on public electricity distribution network structures are set by the general council under th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Investment income

Article R343-14

In the case of undertakings authorised to carry out the transactions referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-1 and supplementary occupational pension funds, in the event of the sale of securities valued i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Prevention of business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures

Article L611-14

After having obtained the agreement of the debtor and, in the event of recourse to conciliation and to an agent for the execution of the agreement, the opinion of the public prosecutor under the condi…

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Article Annexe 4-2-2

JURISDICTIONS HAVING JURISDICTION, PURSUANT TO III OF ARTICLE L. 442-4, PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO PERSONS WHO ARE NOT TRADERS OR CRAFTSMENHEAD OFFICE OF THE COURTS judicialRESSORT Marseille The jurisdi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Reimbursement of unemployment benefit

Article R1235-14

If no opposition is lodged within one month of notification of the order for payment, regardless of the method of notification, or if the employer who lodged the opposition withdraws his opposition, t…

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