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Showing 901910 of 48199 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 22 May 1968 · Cass. 3e civ. 25 January 1983 · Cass. com. 21 March 1995 · Cass. 3e civ. 29 May 1991 · Cass. 3e civ. 27 June 1990 · Cass. ass. plén. 6 October 2006 · Cass. ass. plén. 13 January 2020

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Role of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.

Article R1221-27

…sfusion safety. This report is sent to the Minister for Health and to the European Commission by 30 June of the following year at the latest.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Education and research.

Article L4433-25

…educational and cultural activities relating to knowledge of regional languages and cultures, which may be organised in schools falling within the region's jurisdiction. These activities, which may ta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Committee of elected representatives of the Ile-de-France region (R).

Article R2531-25

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Involvement of midwives in vaccination policy

Article D4151-25

I.-Midwives may prescribe and administer the vaccines mentioned in the decrees provided for in 1° and 2° of article L. 4151-2 to persons whose age conditions and, where applicable, pathologies are spe…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxable transactions

Article 256 C

…nd who are closely linked to each other from a financial, economic and organisational point of view may request, for the application of the provisions of this chapter, to constitute a single taxable p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-1

…nd potential demand, where applicable taking into account the immediate proximity of a border area, may provide weekly rest by rotation for all or part of the staff, under the conditions laid down in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Combating mirror sites

Article L331-27

…ed any measure to prevent access to an online public communication service pursuant to Article L. 336-2, the Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique (French Audiovisual a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Control by the Autorité de la concurrence in the event of a dominant position

Article L752-27

…ndertaking or group of undertakings engaged in wholesale or retail trade, the Competition Authority may, having regard to the particular constraints of these territories arising in particular from the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-9

…f: 1° In the case mentioned in article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The judgment adopting the plan and the implementation of the plan.

Article L626-22

…e paid out of the price after payment of the claims secured by the lien established in articles L. 3253-2 to L. 3253-4, L. 742-6 and L. 7313-8 of the Labour Code.They receive the dividends due accordi…

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