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Showing 491500 of 31856 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 14 June 2000 · Cass. com. 18 January 2011 · Cass. com. 22 March 2017 · CA Versailles 21 December 2001 · Cass. com. 11 July 2000

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Physiotherapists.

Article L4321-22

…professional rules ; 2° The composition and operation of the commission referred to in article L. 4321-4 and the conditions under which the person concerned is subject to a compensation measure; 3° Th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Disciplinary Commission

Article R1442-22

…in three months of the renewal of the Conseil supérieur de la prud'homie provided for in article R. 1431-8. Where applicable, and up to a maximum of one year, their term of office is extended until th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Purpose and conditions of award

Article 211-91

…subtitling and audio description files are subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functi…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 7: Operating procedures of the advisory committees for the amicable settlement of disputes

Article D2197-18

…dministrative judges or civil servants, with the agreement of the parties concerned and, where applicable, the authorities to which they report. The Chairman assigns cases to the rapporteurs he appoin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 17: Conditions for authorisation of individually prepared advanced therapy medicinal products

Article R5121-215

…uirements, the conditions for granting or monitoring the authorisation referred to in Articles R. 5121-212 and R. 5121-213, or where it appears, particularly following evaluation, that the benefit/ris…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 4: Appeal procedures

Article L743-22

…effective guarantees of representation or in the event of a serious threat to public order. In this case, the appeal, accompanied by the request referring to the absence of effective guarantees of rep…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R1243-22

…horised establishment or body sends the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine, as well as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Storage of embryonic stem cells

Article R2151-22

The declaration of embryonic stem cell storage provided for in the sixth paragraph of Article L. 2151-9 shall be sent to the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine by any means enabling rece…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1465

In regional aid areas and for operations carried out from 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2023, the municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax s…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Rural solidarity grant.

Article L2334-21

The first fraction of the rural solidarity grant is allocated to communes whose population represents at least 15% of the population of the canton, to communes with headquarters of centralising office…

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