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Showing 36913700 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 Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 722-14

With regard to the production of demonstration tapes, direct subsidies are reserved for the promotion of series and collections with a total running time of more than four hours and with episodes or i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-14

Article L. 144-7 is not applicable.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Transparency and disclosure requirements

Article R321-14

I. - The reports provided for in Article L. 326-1 are published on the website of the collective management organisations concerned and are maintained on this site, available to the public, for at lea…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and special conditions

Article R1125-14

Research involving the human person carried out in the context of medically assisted procreation means research which complies with the conditions laid down in Title II of Book I of Part One of this C…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article R642-14

…trator, or failing that the liquidator, shall also indicate on the slip provided for in Article R. 521-6 whether the property may be moved and the duration of the inalienability measure.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of doctors.

Article R4127-14

Physicians must not divulge in medical circles a new diagnostic or treatment procedure that has not been sufficiently tested without accompanying their communication with the appropriate reservations.…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-14

…the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, by 15 February each year at the latest, an annual statement of the stocks held at 31 December of the pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Procedure for authorising the importation of human body parts or products mentioned in Article R. 1245-1, for the personal use of one or more recipients, as provided for in the second paragraph of II of Article L. 1245-5.

Article R1245-14

…authorised to carry out imports in application of the second paragraph of II and III of article L. 1245-5 shall mention in the annual activity report provided for in article R. 1243-22 the types and…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Performance of the contract

Article L224-11

The electricity or natural gas supplier bills, at least once a year, according to the energy consumed. No electricity or natural gas consumption more than fourteen months prior to the last reading or…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Contracts for the commissioning of one or more artistic works to be created

Article R2172-11

…can only be awarded to a specific service provider in accordance with the provisions of article R. 2122-3, the purchaser may negotiate the contract for the decoration of public buildings without prio…

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