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Showing 47414750 of 41626 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 3-3-2009 n° 08-11.278

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Patients in health care institutions

Article L1112-3

The rules governing the operation of healthcare establishments to ensure that the rights and obligations of hospitalised patients are respected are defined by regulation. In each health care instituti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Preparation, preservation and use of tissues, cells and their derivatives.

Article L1243-3

Any organisation that has made a prior declaration to the Minister for Research may, for the purposes of its own research programmes, ensure the conservation and preparation for scientific purposes of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-34

The capital reduction is authorised by the shareholders' meeting ruling under the conditions required for amending the Articles of Association. Under no circumstances may it affect the equality of mem…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 38 quinquies

The warehousing of agricultural production by a farmer subject to an actual taxation system with a third party and then, where applicable, its repossession does not result in the recognition of a prof…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Titre Emploi-Service Entreprise.

Article L1273-3

The use of the "Titre Emploi-Service Entreprise" service enables the company in particular to: 1° To obtain the calculation of remuneration due to employees under this Code and the provisions of colle…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative approval

Article L382-3

I. - Where a supplementary occupational pension fund expressly renounces its authorisation by undertaking not to underwrite any new contracts, does not make use of its authorisation within one year of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Entering sums in the automatic cinema production account

Article 211-36

In the event of co-production, the sums representing the automatic financial aid to which production companies are entitled are entered:1° In the following proportions in the automatic cinema producti…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IV: PENALTY OF BANNING FROM FRENCH TERRITORY

Article L641-3

Except in the case of a duly substantiated threat to public order, foreign nationals residing outside France who have been relieved of their French disqualification sentences or whose French disqualif…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-3

The acts which may give rise to extradition, whether it is a question of requesting it or granting it, are as follows: 1° All acts punishable by criminal penalties under the law of the requesting Stat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies relating to systematic internalisers

Article L533-32

A systematic internaliser is an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company which, on an organised, frequent, systematic and substantial basis, deals on own account by execu…

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