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Showing 40114020 of 23469 articles for Art. Cass. ch. mixte 23-11-2004 n° 02-11.352

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-7

For each person subject to registration in the file, the following personal data is recorded: 1° Information relating to the person him/herself:-last name, first name, sex, date and place of birth of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Special provisions applicable to nationalisation operations

Article 248 B

…150-0 A are not applicable to exchanges of securities carried out under the loi de nationalisation n° 82-155 du 11 février 1982. In the event of the sale of the securities received in exchange, the c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: SEMI-PUBLIC COMPANIES WITH A SINGLE OPERATION

Article L1541-2

I. - Subject to this article, the selection of the economic operator shareholder(s) and the award of the contract to the single-operations semi-public company set up shall be carried out by a single p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Implementation.

Article L2331-4

The undertakings referred to in points a and c of paragraph 5 of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on concentrations shall not be regarded as dominant undertakings.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VII: Special provisions applicable to privatisation operations

Article 248 F

…ansactions provided for in 1° of Article 5 of Law no. 86-793 of 2 July 1986 and Title IV of the loi n° 86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986 relative à la liberté de communication dans sa rédaction applicable…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L744-2

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the local finance committee

Article L2573-51

The communes receive resources from the intercommunal equalisation fund under the conditions provided for by Article 52 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 du 27 février 2004 portant statut d'autonomie de la…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D351-6

…lting from the decree no. 2022-894 of 15 June 2022 D. 314-24 to D. 314-26 Resulting from the décret n° 2016-884 du 29 juin 2016 D. 314-27 Resulting from the décret n° 2018-431 du 1er juin 2018 D. 314-…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Provisions specific to the communes of Marseille and Lyon

Article L2513-7

…en the resources allocated to the Bouches-du-Rhône department, pursuant to I of l'article 53 de loi n° 2004-1484 du 30 décembre 2004 de finances pour 2005, and the reduction made, pursuant to the thir…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title I: Provisions relating to Book I

Article 2494

…are applicable to a child born in Mayotte to foreign parents before the entry into force of the loi n° 2018-778 du 10 septembre 2018 pour une immigration maîtrisée, un droit d'asile effectif et une in…

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