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Showing 51515160 of 34202 articles for Art. Cass. 1e civ. avis 6-12-2018 n° 18-70.011

French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-18 b (art. A322-91)

Conditions for teaching trimix or heliox diving in the natural environmentSPACESMINIMUM DIVER SKILLSSKILLSminimum of the person supervisingthe groupMAXIMUM NUMBER OF DIVERS (not including the person s…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-18 c (art. A322-91)

Conditions for exploration diving with trimix or heliox in the natural environmentSPACESof evolutionSUPERVISED DIVINGSCUBA DIVINGMinimum skillsof supervised diversMaximum numberof the group(not includ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Traders.

Article R128-6

The following may be recipients of information and personal data recorded in the national file of persons prohibited from managing: 1° Pursuant to 3° of Article L. 128-2 :a) Judicial police officers o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-6

Athletes who make up the target group, designated for one year by the competent local authority from among : 1° Athletes registered on the list of top-level athletes or the list of promising athletes…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D4163-6

The industry professional benchmark referred to in II of article L. 4163-2 is approved by a joint order of the ministers responsible for labour and social affairs after receiving the opinion of the Co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Penalties and criminal liability

Article L3515-6

Legal entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the French Penal Code, for the offences defined in articles L. 3515-3 and L. 3515-4, in addition to the fine, th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multiannual contract of objectives and resources

Article R5213-68

I.-The Prefect shall monitor the implementation of the multiannual contract of objectives and resources. At the request of the adapted enterprise, the Prefect will provide it with any information need…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Delimitation of the waiting area

Article L341-6

The waiting area extends from the points of embarkation and disembarkation to those where checks on persons are carried out.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Access to defence or security concession contracts by economic operators or products from third countries

Article L3124-6

Defence or security concessions excluded or exempted from the Agreement on Government Procurement or another equivalent international agreement to which the European Union is a party shall be awarded…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-14

For the application of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, done at The Hague on 14 May 1954, and the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954…

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