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Showing 971980 of 40503 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 24 March 1999 · Cass. com. 13 February 2007 · Cass. com. 31 May 2011

French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: The Company Ombudsman

Article R2197-24

Referral to the Company Ombudsman interrupts the time limits for appeals in the case of contracts that are administrative contracts.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13

On a reasoned request from the Chairman or Secretary General of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the president of the court may order the sequestration, wherever held, of funds, securities or righ…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Elements of private project management for infrastructure works

Article R2431-24

In the case of a new building project, preliminary studies are the first stage in the project manager's response to the objectives, needs, constraints and requirements of the programme.These studies e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Packaging units for rolling tobacco

Article R3512-24

I.-A unit packet of rolling tobacco may be: 1° Parallelepiped with characteristics that may be specified by order; 2° Cylindrical; 3° A pouch. II-The packaging unit complies with the size characterist…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Digital asset service providers

Article L572-24

…4-10-2 who, after formal notice, fails to respond to requests for information from the Autorité des marchés financiers, obstructs it in any way whatsoever in the performance of its supervisory duties…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Allocation of working hours

Article L3123-24

A company or establishment agreement or, failing that, an extended branch agreement may determine the period within which the employee is to be notified of the change in the distribution of working ho…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 8: Revolving credit

Article D312-24

In the cases provided for in article L. 312-7, the representative example indicates, in addition to the information provided for in article D. 312-21 and in the same font size: 1° That the amount of t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L526-24

…France, and depending on the authorisation it has received there, any electronic money institution may carry on its activity in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, La Réunion, May…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-41

The redemption by the fund of its units and the issue of new units may be temporarily suspended by the management company when exceptional circumstances so require and if the interests of the unithold…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the various enforcement courts

Article D49-24

…tenced persons covered by the provisions of Article 712-21, the sentence enforcement judge or court may, in accordance with the provisions of Article D. 574, ask the prison integration and probation s…

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