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Showing 40814090 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 Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Approval procedure

Article R519-57

…sites of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the body referred to inArticle L. 512-1 of the Insurance Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Approval procedure

Article R519-55

For authorisation under the conditions set out in I of Article L. 519-13, the association submits a file to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the composition of which is set by ord…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secret remedies.

Article R5125-57

…ts packaging, shall be considered to be a secret remedy: 1° For the preparations mentioned in 1° to 3° of article L. 5121-1, the name and address of the pharmacist who dispensed the preparation, excep…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secret remedies.

Article R5125-59

…ht per unit of intake determined ; 2° or its centesimal proportion by weight in the preparation; or 3° or, in the case of a product titrated in biological units, the number of units contained per dosa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secret remedies.

Article R5125-58

For the purposes of article R. 5125-57, active substances are substances which are deemed to have medicinal properties, as well as those which the compounding pharmacist declares to contribute to the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Special housing allowance for primary school teachers.

Article D2573-51

I. - Article R. 2334-13, with the exception of its second paragraph, and the articles R. 2334-14 and R. 2334-17 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for selecting health care organisations

Article R6113-55

…at the end of the selection procedure, with regard to the collection and validation of study data; 3° The technical documentation relating to the implementation of the study, as well as the charter s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Speech therapists.

Article L4341-5

Persons who, before 31 December 1973, obtained one of the qualifications listed by order of the ministers responsible for higher education, health and social security, and who ceased to be issued on o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Nordic cross-country skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192-5

…decide to subject the applicant in whole or in part, under the conditions laid down in article R. 212-90-1 and in 3° of article R. 212-93, is to check the applicant's ability to supervise participant…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: The creditor and the writ of execution

Article L111-5

…nt; 2° Cost tax orders. An order to pay costs, affixed to the judgment in accordance with article 105 of the local code of civil procedure, may be enforced by virtue of the enforceable copy of this ju…

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