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Showing 321330 of 44097 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 10-3-1993 n° 465

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Addictovigilance

Article R5132-102

Any doctor, dental surgeon or midwife who becomes aware of a serious case of pharmacodependence, abuse or misuse of a substance, plant, medicinal product or other product mentioned in article R. 5132-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Addictovigilance

Article R5132-104

The drug dependence and addictovigilance assessment and information centres carry out their vigilance missions relating to health products under the conditions defined in article R. 1413-61-4.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Penalties

Article R6114-10

In the event of partial or total non-fulfilment of the commitments, and in particular of the quantitative targets, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency will send the contract holder a re…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation of the company.

Article R743-108

…ovember 1966, shall be completed in accordance with the rules laid down by the article 52 of Decree n° 78-704 of 3 July 1978 relating to the application of Law n° 78-9 of 4 January 1978 amending Title…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 1000

Insurance contracts where the risk is located outside France or does not relate to an industrial, commercial or agricultural establishment located in France are exempt from the special tax; in the abs…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Agricultural and forestry land development

Article 1023

Plans, minutes, certificates, notifications, deliberations, decisions, rulings, contracts, receipts, and generally all acts or formalities relating exclusively to the application of Chapters I, III, I…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
11°: Expropriation and easements in the public interest

Article 1045

I. - Plans, minutes, certificates, notifications, contracts and other acts made pursuant to articles L. 141-1, L. 251-1, L. 331-5, L. 441-1 and L. 531-1 of the code de l'expropriation pour cause d'uti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7°: Local authorities, local public bodies and local public companies

Article 1042

I. - Subject to the provisions of I of Article 257, real estate acquisitions made out of court and for valuable consideration by communes or syndicates of communes, public land establishments created…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Administrative rectification and cancellation

Article 1047

The purely material errors or omissions which, pursuant to Article 99-1 of the Civil Code, may be rectified by the civil registrar, are: 1° An error or omission in a civil status record, proof of whic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-101

When the company, within two years of its registration, acquires an asset belonging to a shareholder and whose value is at least equal to one tenth of the share capital, a commissioner, responsible fo…

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