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Showing 13711380 of 57027 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 5 November 1997 · Cass. 3e civ. 5 January 2017 n° 15-12.605 · Cass. com. 3 December 2003 · Cass. 3e civ. 18 April 2019 n° 18-10.883 · Cass. 1re civ. 12 December 2000 · Cass. 3e civ. 9 February 2011 · Cass. 1re civ. 6 June 2018 n° 17-17.438

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Modification or release from house arrest with electronic surveillance

Article D32-18

…ce to the possibility for the person to make an application for modification pursuant to article D. 32-16.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Prohibitions.

Article L7124-18

…forbidden for any person exercising one of the activities and professions mentioned in article L. 7124-16 to employ children without carrying a birth certificate and without proving their origin and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Making available.

Article L7123-18

For the duration of the service, the user is responsible for the conditions under which the work is performed in accordance with the legal provisions and collective bargaining stipulations applicable…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation of dematerialisation

Article D1221-18

…eme, other than private individuals employing an employee in their service, who have made more than 50 pre-employment declarations during the previous calendar year are required to send these declarat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal action by trade unions in the event of redundancies

Article D1235-18

…on organisation intends to take legal action on behalf of an employee, in application of Article L. 1235-8, it notifies the employee by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. If the employ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation

Article R1271-18

…ons and institutions authorised to issue the special payment voucher referred to in B of article L. 1271-1, on paper or in dematerialised form, receive remuneration from the natural or legal persons w…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: End of mandate

Article D1442-18

An industrial tribunal member who, during his term of office, becomes an employer while sitting as an employee, or becomes an employee while sitting as an employer, must declare this to the public pro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules

Article R1132-18

Genetic counsellors must not use their professional position to attempt to obtain for themselves or for others any unjustified advantage or profit or to commit an act contrary to probity.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-18

…f the biological product used to carry out the medical biology analyses provided for in articles R. 1211-14 to R. 1211-16 are kept under conditions set by order of the Minister for Health.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Collection of labile blood products.

Article R1222-18

…a blood establishment under the direction and responsibility of the doctor mentioned in article R. 1222-20:1° Nurses ;2° Persons meeting the conditions set out in article R. 1222-21; these persons mu…

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