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Showing 20612070 of 49753 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 21-2-2001 n° 99-14.820

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mediation

Article R7345-24

When it terminates the mediation, the Employment Platforms Labour Relations Authority shall notify its decision by any means giving a date certain of the receipt of this notification to the platform,…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General information.

Article 27

1. Imported or exported products are subject to the Tariff Law in the state in which they are located at the time it becomes applicable to them. 2. However, the customs service may authorise the separ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 255

Only citizens of either sex, aged over twenty-three, who can read and write in French, enjoy political, civil and family rights, and are not in any of the cases of incapacity or incompatibility listed…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 256

Sont incapables d'être jurés : 1° Persons whose bulletin no. 1 of the criminal record mentions a conviction for a felony or misdemeanour; 2° (Repealed); 3° Those who are in a state of indictment or in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 258

Persons over the age of seventy or who do not have their main residence in the department in which the assize court has its seat may be exempted from jury duty when they apply to the commission provid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 257

Jury duty is incompatible with those listed below: 1° Member of the Government, of Parliament, of the Constitutional Council, of the High Council of the Judiciary and of the Economic, Social and Envir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Disciplinary procedure

Article R4441-27

I.- Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the articles of Chapter VI of Title II of Book I of this Part mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the r…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Value added tax

Article 284

…ons cease to be met following the sale to their occupants, under the conditions provided for by loi n° 84-595 du 12 juillet 1984 defining lease-to-own property, of housing mentioned in 1° of III of ar…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-28

The provisions of articles 49, 50 and 52 du décret n° 78-704 du 3 juillet 1978 sont applicables aux cessions et transmissions de parts sociales et à leur publicité.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-28-2

I.-Any commercial company that is neither a micro-enterprise, within the meaning of Article L. 123-16-1, nor a small business, within the meaning of Article L. 123-16, and which is controlled, within…

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