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Showing 53815390 of 40503 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 24 March 1999 · Cass. com. 13 February 2007 · Cass. com. 31 May 2011

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

…f the Agence nationale de la sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may impose financial penalties on natural or legal persons producing or marketing veterinary medicin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Other applications of the Community arbitration procedure.

Article R5141-47-10

In specific cases of Community interest, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail or the applicant shall refer the matter…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-25

Notwithstanding article 13 of the law of 16 and 24 August 1790 on the organisation of the judiciary, the judicial court alone has jurisdiction to rule on any action for compensation for damage resulti…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to contracts for social services and other specific services

Article R2131-7

The purchaser may use a notice referred to in Article R. 2131-1 to issue an invitation to tender for contracts for social services and other specific services mentioned in 3° of Article R. 2123-1 when…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Advertising procedures for contracts for social services and other specific services

Article R2131-15

Where the purchaser has not published a notice as referred to in Article R. 2131-7, contracts for social services and other specific services mentioned in 3° of Article R. 2123-1, the estimated value…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Cost control of contracts awarded by the State and its public establishments

Article R2196-8

…e services which are the subject of the contract, or provides inaccurate information, the purchaser may, after formal notice has remained without effect, decide to suspend the payments to be made up t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Labelling.

Article R5141-73

…r information required by the marketing authorisation decision; 12° The words "for veterinary use". 13° Where applicable, the words "to be dispensed only on prescription", together with a reference to…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Amicable distribution

Article R332-10

…° The statements of registrations provided for in the first and second paragraphs of article R. 521-31 of the French Commercial Code. Where the sale price comes from a property seizure, the following…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
19° decies : Tax reduction for rental investments and affordable rented accommodation

Article 199 sexvicies

…Article 4 B can benefit from an income tax reduction for the acquisition, from 1 January 2009 until 31 December 2022, a new dwelling or a dwelling in a future state of completion or a dwelling that ha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: French regulated markets

Article R763-2

…hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 421-1n° 2007-901 of 15 May 2007R. 421-6-2 and R. 421-6-3n° 2017-733 of 4 May 2017

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