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Showing 16211630 of 56566 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 11-1-1989 n° 87-12.720

French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article R5122-11

The hours not worked as part of the partial activity are subject to the payment of the allowance within the limit of the legal working time or, where this is lower, the collective working time or the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Import and export

Article R5121-116

Except where there are public health reasons for not doing so, parallel import authorisation is granted if the following conditions are met: 1° The proprietary medicinal product is obtained from an au…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Openings, mutations and transfers.

Article L3332-11

An existing on-trade public house may be transferred to the department in which it is located. Applications for authorisation to transfer are submitted to the State representative in the département.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-11-1

I.-The statutory auditor of a public interest entity shall implement the measures mentioned in paragraph 5 of Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of 16 April 2014, when a member of the network to…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Id : Multi-territorial exploitation licences for online rights in musical works

Article R321-11

I. - Collective management organisations pay the sums due to right holders in respect of multi-territorial exploitation authorisations for online rights granted in respect of their musical works withi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Import and export

Article R5121-118

The labelling and outer packaging of the proprietary medicinal product benefiting from a parallel import authorisation are identical to those of the proprietary medicinal product which has obtained ma…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exclusion of non-specialised cinemas

Article D311-11

When the operator of a cinematographic entertainment establishment who has not opted for the specialisation provided for in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating rules

Article R621-11

In addition to the powers conferred on him by the application of the first paragraphs of Articles 16 and 18 of the above-mentioned Act of 20 January 2017 , the Chairman shall exercise the powers of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Permanent access to the national health data system for certain public services

Article R1461-11

The State services, public establishments and bodies entrusted with a public service mission, mentioned in article R. 1461-12, are authorised to process personal data from the national health data sys…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Estimated revenue and expenditure and accounts

Article D6162-11

For their application to cancer centres, articles D. 6143-39, R. 6145-6, R. 6145-10, R. 6145-29, D. 6145-32, D. 6145-34, R. 6145-40, R. 6145-65 and R. 6145-69 are adapted as follows: 1° In article D.…

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