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Showing 87918800 of 59417 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 8-1-1997 n° 9

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Simplified joint stock companies.

Article R227-1-1

…ere the articles of association provide for the register of decisions referred to in Article L. 227-9 to be kept and the minutes to be drawn up in electronic form without specifying the procedures, th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prohibitions.

Article L1251-10

In addition to the cases provided for in Article L. 1251-9, it is forbidden to use temporary work:1° To replace an employee whose employment contract has been suspended as a result of a collective lab…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Increases

Article R7422-10

…whether a client must pay a homeworker the additional overtime pay provided for in article L. 7422-9, the following is taken into account: 1° Performance times resulting from the extended collective…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Guarantees conferred on general councillors and regional councillors attending the congress of elected departmental and regional representatives

Article R5914-1

…ss of departmental and regional elected representatives of the departments mentioned in article L. 5911-1 meets, the articles R. 3123-1 to R. 3123-8 and R. 4135-1 to R. 4135-8 are applicable to depart…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Pharmacy professions

Article R4443-1-1

Chapter IV of Title I of Book II of this Part Four, in the version resulting from Decree No 2022-381 of 16 March 2022, shall apply in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, subject to the conditions set…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : The State representative

Article D6312-1

…tative of the State in Saint-Martin exercises his powers under the conditions set out in the décret n°2007-1072 of 6 July 2007 relating to the representative of the State in the collectivity of Saint-…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R322-155

…depending on whether the contribution is paid in the second, third or fourth quarter of the year; 9° The proportion of the levies that may be allocated to the constitution of a provision in favour o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Medicinal products subject to registration.

Article R5121-146

…eutical form; 7° The capacity of the sales model; 8° Where applicable, special storage precautions; 9° A special warning, if required for the medicinal product; 10° The manufacturing batch number; 11°…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title Ia: Home insurance

Article L215-1

Any person subject to the insurance obligation set out in article 7 g of law no. 89-462 of 6 July 1989 aimed at improving relations between tenants and amending law no. 86-1290 of 23 December 1986 , o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation to set up within a reference area

Article R761-12-1

The authorisation application comprises two parts. The first part gives details identifying the applicant, the products whose wholesale is envisaged, the surface areas envisaged by the project as well…

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