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Showing 59615970 of 23074 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 20-12-2000 n° 1765

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations.

Article R513-5

For the purposes of 2° of I of article L. 513-3, guaranteed loans eligible for inclusion in the assets of sociétés de crédit foncier are loans for which a credit institution, finance company or insura…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application.

Article R4534-2

The provisions of this chapter do not apply to dismantling, servicing or maintenance work on buildings by destination, including those mentioned in Article 524 of the Civil Code, provided that they ar…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Model agency authorisation and operating conditions

Article R7124-10

The administrative authority defined in article R. 7124-1 grants the authorisation, for a renewable period of one year, on the assent of a committee whose composition and mode of operation are determi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIIa: The national platform for judicial interception

Article R40-47

I.-Magistrates shall have access to all data, information and communications content recorded in the processing system, for the purposes of the proceedings brought before them. II.For the purposes of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article D7231-1

I.-The personal service activities subject to authorisation, pursuant to article L. 7232-1, are as follows:1° Childcare in the home, under an age set by joint order of the Minister for the Economy and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Criminal penalties

Article 1751

1. (Repealed). 2. In all cases where a breach of the invoicing rules as provided for in articles L. 441-9 and L. 443-3 of the French Commercial Code (1), the offender's business may be sequestered unt…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R6123-8

I.-The Board of Directors deliberates on : 1° Setting a maximum level of funding eligible for the inter-branch equalisation referred to in 1° of Article L. 6123-5 ; 2° The monitoring and evaluation of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Protection and environment

Article R1533-1

The provisions of Chapter III of Title III of Book III of this Part are applicable in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories subject to the following adaptations: 1° In Articles R. 1333-12, R.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-21

In order to determine whether the group Solvency Capital Requirement calculated on the basis of consolidated data in accordance with Article R. 356-19 appropriately reflects the risk profile of the gr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 sexies

I. - In Mayotte, the tax base for property tax on built-up properties sold from 18 September 2013 until 31 December 2016 by a public entity to unlawful occupants of buildings used as their main dwelli…

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