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Showing 41114120 of 55438 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 4-2-2009 n° 08-10.723

French Sports CodeIn force
Section 5: Specific provisions for physical activity or sports establishments which organise the practice or teaching of underwater diving

Article R322-41

In the establishments covered by this section, the holder of a diploma mentioned in article L. 212-1 of the French Sports Code relating to the supervision of underwater diving is deemed to hold, in re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-4

I.-The right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission, other than cable retransmission as defined in III of article L. 132-20-1 and meeting the conditions mentioned in II…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Qualifying conditions

Article R742-4

Commercial court clerks may be appointed without fulfilling the diploma or traineeship conditions provided for respectively in 6° and 8° of article R. 742-1 persons who have successfully completed a p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5223-4

Where the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et de produits santé finds that advertising for an in vitro diagnostic medical device, which is not covered by the provisio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Arrangements for additional contributions to the personal training account

Article R6323-42

I.-When, in application of the provisions of III of article L. 6323-4, the financers mentioned in II of the same article contribute additional rights to the personal training account, they send the Ca…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: MEDIATION

Article R614-4

The consumer mediator shall also send the Commission d'évaluation et de contrôle de la médiation de la consommation the information required to evaluate his activity, and this at least every two years…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-4

When the communes concerned by a request to create a new commune are not located in the same département or region, the decision to create the commune may only be taken after the territorial boundarie…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article R641-40

In application of Article L. 641-15, the liquidator may, by order of the juge-commissaire, ask the legal representative of the legal entity or the debtor who is a natural person or any other employee…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40-5

In the event of a person's escape, the public prosecutor shall immediately inform the victim of the acts that led to the detention or the victim's family of the escape, if the escape is likely to put…

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French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
TITLE III: AIR TRANSPORT COMPANIES.

Article L330-4

In the event of an air transport activity being carried out by a company that has not been duly authorised, the Minister responsible for civil aviation may, on expiry of a period of eight days followi…

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