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Showing 22712280 of 65128 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 11 October 1989 · Cass. 1re civ. 15 July 1993 · Cass. com. 1 October 1996 · Cass. 1re civ. 2 June 1981 · Cass. 1re civ. 12 July 1994 · Cass. 3e civ. 14 November 2007

French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article D111-11

Any person carrying on the activity referred to in the ninth paragraph of Article L. 111-7 specifies the operation of the comparison service in a specific section. This section is directly and easily…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Terms and conditions governing the participation of army hospitals in the public hospital service

Article R6147-114

…nce takes back full control of all or part of the activities and equipment mentioned in article L. 6147-7. In this case, except in exceptional circumstances or emergencies, the Minister for Health, th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to professional customers

Article D533-11

The following are deemed to be professional clients within the meaning of article L. 533-16, for all investment services and all financial instruments:1. a) The credit institutions referred to in arti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Popular savings passbook account

Article L221-15

…e tax residence is in France and whose income does not exceed the amounts mentioned in I of article 1417 of the General Tax Code multiplied by a coefficient equal to 1.8, the amount obtained being rou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedure for appointing liquidators

Article R613-12

Where it has imposed the measures provided for in Article L. 613-24 without an adversarial procedure, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall immediately notify the credit instituti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Purpose of approval.

Article R6312-15

When they carry out emergency evacuations of disaster victims in accordance witharticle L. 1424-2 of the General Local Authorities Code, when they intervene in the absence of medical transport resourc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to canvass.

Article D341-12

The information contained in the direct seller file is as follows:1° The direct seller's registration number;2° The name, surname, first names, date and place of birth of the direct seller, natural pe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Principles

Article R4461-15

The employer determines the most appropriate breathing gas for the working conditions.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Flat-rate grant.

Article L2334-12

…munes, the lump-sum allocation of the former commune calculated in application of III of article L. 2334-7 is distributed between each new commune in proportion to the population.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Substitute team

Article R3132-12

If a company or establishment agreement provides for stand-in shifts, authorisation to exceed the maximum daily working time of ten hours is requested from the labour inspector.

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