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Showing 29312940 of 40190 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 4-6-1971

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article R151-6

Within thirty working days from the date of receipt of an application for authorisation, the Minister responsible for the economy will inform the investor who submitted the application either that the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article R321-66

Persons satisfying the conditions laid down in articles R. 321-56 and R. 321-65 and wishing to establish themselves in France shall send their application for recognition of professional qualification…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Solidarity grant for the equipment of local authorities and their groupings affected by climatic or geological events

Article R1613-6

The basis for the grant is equal to the amount of the damage where the property is not insured at the date of the event. Where the property is insured at the date of the event and the applicant local…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Arrangements for access to individual dosimetric monitoring data

Article R4451-68

I.-The occupational health physician shall have access, in their nominative form, to the results of individual dosimetric monitoring as well as to the effective dose of each worker for whom he is resp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article A36-10-6

The material organisation of the technical examination relating to the exercise of certain judicial police missions by tax service agents, and in particular the supply of copies and composition forms…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Review proceedings

Article R4234-48

I.-The review of a final decision of the Disciplinary Chamber of First Instance or the National Disciplinary Chamber imposing a temporary ban, with or without a suspended sentence, or a permanent ban…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of collective bargaining.

Article L3121-64

I.-The agreement providing for the conclusion of individual fixed-term agreements in hours or days over the year determines : 1° The categories of employees who may enter into an individual lump-sum a…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FOR SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article L831-6

In French Guyana, the public prosecutor may, in the course of the investigation or if no court has been seised or when the court seised has exhausted its jurisdiction without having ruled on the fate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-6

In a cooperative incorporated as a société anonyme, the directors or the members of the management board and the supervisory board are natural persons who are either partners in their own right, or th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Contracts concluded at trade fairs and exhibitions

Article L224-62

Where the conclusion of a contract for the sale or provision of services between a trader and a consumer, at a fair, exhibition or any commercial event covered by Chapter II of Title VI of Book VII of…

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