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Showing 72617270 of 27349 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 13-10-2021 n° 20-18.333

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Vaccination skills of pharmacy students in hospital and out-of-hospital settings

Article R6153-91-2

Students in the third cycle of pharmaceutical studies mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 6153-5 may administer the vaccines listed in 9° bis of article L. 5125-1-1 A to persons whose age…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: New horizontal aid to compensate for reduced activity

Article 919-89

The amount of aid may not exceed that of the actual loss of turnover recorded over the period between 1 January and 30 June 2021 compared with the average turnover achieved between 1 January and 30 Ju…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and operation

Article R1435-30

…not exceed the threshold mentioned in the fourth paragraph of article 10 of the aforementioned law n° 2000-321.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures to boost film production

Article 916-8

Notwithstanding article 212-42, for aid applications submitted between 1 January 2021 and 30 June 2021, production companies eligible to apply for programme aid may submit up to six projects simultane…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: National guarantee fund for agricultural disasters.

Article R431-38

For the application of 1° of article 13 of law no. 64-706 of 10 July 1964, the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance is responsible for compiling the statistics required to carry out the information and prev…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Participative finance intermediaries

Article L775-32

I.-The articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles app…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 217 duodecies

…ese local authorities, for the application of 1° and 3° of the same I bis, the reference to the loi n° 84-595 du 12 juillet 1984 defining rent-to-own property is replaced by the reference to the regul…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and operation (R)

Article R1425-3

The departmental advisory commission, referred to in articles L. 1424-20, L. 1424-21and L. 1424-36, is established by prefectoral order. This decree is published in the prefecture's administrative rec…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil penalties

Article L242-18-3

Where the trader has not reimbursed all of the sums paid by the consumer under the conditions set out in articles L. 224-25-22 and L. 224-25-23, the total amount outstanding is automatically increased…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 16: Partial or total transfer of the business.

Article R631-40

The articles R. 642-1 to R. 642-21, excluding the first paragraph of article R. 642-10, are applicable to the assignment referred to in l'article L. 631-22. The mandataire judiciaire performs the duti…

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