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Showing 51415150 of 59844 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 5-1-2012 n° 10-12.741

French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter III: Public contracts concluded by a contracting authority

Article L2513-5

The same rules apply to public contracts concluded by a contracting authority to carry out the activity of a network operator which are subject to articles L. 2514-1 to L. 2514-4 or become so pursuant…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title VI: Criminal provisions

Article R162-5

I. - Any employee of : 1° of a credit institution, La Poste, an electronic money institution, a payment institution, one of their agents, a person referred to in Article L. 525-8 or a bureau de change…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article R561-5

For the application of 1° of I of Article L. 561-5, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall identify their customers as follows: 1° Where the customer is a natural person, by collecting the cu…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Contract for the sale of travel and holidays.

Article R211-5

The information mentioned in 1°, 3°, 4°, 5° and 7° of article R. 211-4 communicated to the traveller forms part of the contract and may only be modified under the conditions defined in article L. 211-…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-5

For the application of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed P…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Secondment.

Article R6152-55

In the cases provided for in 2°, 4°, 6° and 8° of article R. 6152-51, the practitioner may not obtain a secondment before three years of service in his post.Only hospital practitioners appointed on a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Application for approval

Article R212-56

The standard contract of association mentioned in 5° of article R. 212-54 provides in particular: 1° The reference price mentioned in article L. 212-29 or the guaranteed remuneration payment terms men…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: The Competition Authority.

Article R462-5

I.-The Competition Authority shall be informed in advance of the group purchasing agreements referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 462-10 when the following two conditions are met: a) The t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Approval of professional associations

Article R519-54

To be considered as representative within the meaning of I of article L. 519-13, a professional association must have paid-up members representing at least 10% of the total number of professionals sub…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Self-employed persons, members of the liberal professions and the self-employed.

Article L6331-53

Self-employed sea fishing workers and sea fishing employers with fewer than eleven employees, as well as self-employed sea farming workers and sea farming employers with fewer than eleven employees af…

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