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Showing 52815290 of 35471 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 7-5-1997 n° 740

French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

Article L917-5

For the application of Article L. 712-7, the words: ", in particular those mentioned in 2° of Article L. 711-8," are deleted.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Self-employed persons, members of the liberal professions and the self-employed.

Article L6331-51

The contributions provided for in article L. 6331-48, with the exception of that mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, are collected and controlled according to the rules and under the guarantees an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Maintenance and operation of facilities

Article R1321-57

The internal networks mentioned in 3° of article R. 1321-43 may not, unless the Prefect grants an exemption, be supplied with water from a resource that has not been authorised in application of artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Regional Councils

Article L4312-5

I. - The regional or inter-regional council, under the supervision of the national council, carries out the tasks defined in article L. 4312-2 at regional level. It represents the profession in the re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article R4433-5

The general destination map for the different parts of the territory provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 4433-7 is drawn up at a scale of between 1:50,000 and 1:100,000, with the exceptio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Industrial tribunal members

Article R1423-55

The employment tribunal activities referred to in Article L. 1442-5 are : 1° The following activities relating to the role of employee representative: a) Taking the oath ; b) Setting up the industrial…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Compliance by sports federations with their obligations

Article R232-41-12-5

To ensure that federations comply with their anti-doping obligations, the Agence française de lutte contre le dopage is empowered to : 1° Question the approved federations, under conditions that it de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 696-51

In application of 7° of Article 696-50, the obligations listed in Article 138 may also be followed in France, under the same conditions.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: General procedural provisions.

Article R662-5

Where the court declares that it does not have jurisdiction, it may order the conservatory or provisional measures referred to in the last paragraph of Article R. 662-7.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Safeguard, reorganisation and compulsory winding-up proceedings

Article L2312-53

The social and economic committee is informed and consulted : 1° Before an application to open receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings is filed with the company registry; 2° During safeguar…

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