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Showing 201210 of 56772 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 23-1-2025 n° 23-18.643

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Access to payment account services held by credit institutions

Article D312-23

Where a credit institution has not established the rules provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 312-23, or where these rules are not complied with, the persons referred to in that paragrap…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Remuneration.

Article D6152-23-1

The allowances mentioned in 2° of article R. 6152-23 are :1° Allowances for taking part in on-call duty or working periods in excess of weekly service obligations:a) hardship allowances corresponding…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-28

Cinema operators may submit an application for a first classification in year n+1 in the following cases:1° Opening of the cinema between 1st January and 31st December of year n-1;2° Refusal to classi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commencement of employment, management, remuneration and benefits

Article R6153-23

Interns are affiliated to the general social security scheme. Pursuant toarticle 1 of decree no. 70-1277 of 23 December 1970 creating a supplementary social security pension scheme for non-tenured Sta…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-25

Only the following may use the software covered by this chapter:1° Employees of the departments mentioned in article 230-20, individually designated and specially empowered, for the sole purposes of t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-24

A magistrate, responsible for monitoring the implementation of software covered by this chapter and ensuring that data is kept up to date, appointed for this purpose by the Minister of Justice, shall…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-27

By way of derogation from article 231-26, the classification, labels and aid, as well as, where applicable, the direct allocations provided for in…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Functional allowances.

Article R2123-23

…to the modification of the territorial boundaries of the cantons provided for in application of law n° 2013-403 du 17 mai 2013 relative à l'élection des conseillers départementaux, des conseillers mun…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Transfer procedures

Article L1424-23-1

…ts provided for therein no later than 31 December of the year following the promulgation of the law n° 2004-811 du 13 août 2004 de modernisation de la sécurité civile.Failing this, the transfer is dec…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-1

The College and the Sanction Committee may, if they do not consider themselves sufficiently informed in the light of the documents in the file, propose to the athlete likely to be sanctioned that he u…

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