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Showing 78217830 of 23897 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 21-11-1974 n° 73-12.925

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Expenditure by communes and groups of communes for municipal secondary and special education establishments (R).

Article D2321-14

In the absence of an agreement reached between the local authorities and groupings of communes concerned before 1st November, the costs for the following year are apportioned under the following condi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article R822-22

The specific continuing education provided for in Article L. 822-4 is forty hours. It must be completed, in continuous or discontinuous sessions, in the eighteen months preceding acceptance of an audi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-18

The report provided for in Article L. 4425-2 describes, in summary form, the situation in terms of sustainable development of the local authority based on the assessments, documents and reports produc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D5217-8

The report provided for in Article L. 5217-10-2 describes, in summary form, the local authority's sustainable development situation based on the assessments, documents and reports produced by the metr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4-3

I. - Pôle emploi provides the data subjects of the processing mentioned in I of Article D. 5422-4 with the information mentioned in Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, as well as…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-5

Financial holding companies and parent undertakings of finance companies are subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article L. 511-13, Article L. 511-21 and Articles L. 511-33 to L. 511-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Groupement de coopération sanitaire de moyens exploiting authorisations held by one or more of its members

Article R6133-13

I.-The health cooperation grouping jointly operating the authorisations held by one or more of its members on a single geographical site may be authorised by the Director General of the Regional Healt…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Guarantee of financial obligations

Article L211-38-1

No creditor of the beneficiary other than the provider of the financial collateral referred to in Article L. 211-38 and provided as initial margin pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Assistance in recovering damages for victims of crime.

Article L422-8

The guarantee fund may take all legal action necessary to obtain payment of damages and sums awarded in application of articles 375 or 475-1 of the code of criminal procedure from the persons responsi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Approval, training and swearing-in of persons responsible for inspections.

Article R232-68

Approval for persons responsible for testing under article L. 232-11 is granted by the French Anti-Doping Agency under the conditions it defines.No person may obtain the authorisation provided for in…

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