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Showing 66616670 of 24917 articles for Art. Cass. 2e civ. 18-9-2003 n° 01-16.019

French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 3-3-1 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLE A. 321-11)

Article Annexe 3-3-1

CANDIDATE FOR THE EXAMINATION FOR ACCESS TO THE TRAINEESHIP PROVIDED FOR IN 4° OF ARTICLE R. 321-18 AND ARTICLES R. 321-20 to R. 321-25 OF THE CODE OF COMMERCEI, the undersigned ......................…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article A134-1

For the application of Article R. 134-2, notwithstanding Article 142-3 of Regulation No. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorité des normes comptables relating to the accounting framework for insu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities.

Article R123-208-1

…ird employment plan ; 3° Persons exercising the profession of taxi operator provided for by the loi n° 95-66 du 20 janvier 1995 relative à l'accès à l'activité de conducteur ou au transport de marchan…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Société d'exercice libéral de pharmaciens d'officine.

Article R5125-20

I. - A partner who is a full pharmacist practising within a "société d'exercice libéral" may cease this professional activity, provided that he informs the company and the relevant "conseil de l'ordre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Settlement of certain claims.

Article L643-2

Creditors holding a special lien, pledge, collateral security or mortgage and the Treasury for its preferential claims may, once they have declared their claims even if they have not yet been admitted…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and college of supervisors

Article L613-20-5

Where warranted by an emergency situation, in particular that described in Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, or an adverse development that is likely to threaten market liquidity or the stab…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Applications for authorisation

Article R1333-119

I.-The application for authorisation must be accompanied by a file containing :1° A description of the nuclear activity to be carried out and the reasons for this ;2° General information about the est…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common rules

Article R519-23

Any information provided by the bank and payment services intermediary pursuant to this section shall be communicated clearly and accurately. The information shall be provided on a durable medium avai…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Overall operating grant.

Article R2573-50

The allocation of the global operating grant to the communes of French Polynesia is carried out under the conditions set out in articles R. 2334-1, R. 2334-3 and R. 2334-9-1 to R. 2334-9-3.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil penalties

Article L341-27

A creditor who grants credit may be deprived of the right to interest in the proportion set by the judge, up to an amount that may not exceed, for each of the breaches listed below, 30% of the interes…

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