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Showing 28512860 of 21317 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 13 January 1993

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Bailiffs

Article R444-56

…is liable to one of the disciplinary sanctions provided for in article 16 of Order no. 2022-544 of 13 April 2022 relating to the ethics and discipline of ministerial officers.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Diseases transmitted by insects

Article R3114-14

…ay be entrusted to the public or private organisations mentioned in articles R. 3114-11 and R. 3114-13; 2° Procedures for monitoring the resistance of local vector species to biocidal products used fo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds concerning the transfer of assets by succession or gift

Article A444-66

Notarisation (numbers 13 to 15 of table 5) gives rise to the collection of:1° A fixed fee of €56.60, in the case of notarisation after death, recording the devolution of the estate;2° A proportional f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Simplified extradition procedure

Article 696-25

…cil on simplified extradition procedure and supplementing the European Convention on Extradition of 13 December 1957.This section shall also apply to requests for provisional arrest for extradition pu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Risk Committees

Article L511-93

…ons when it monitors the implementation of this strategy by the persons mentioned in Article L. 511-13 and by the head of the risk management function. In the case of a branch of a credit institution…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Governance system

Article R354-6

…alculate these provisions, to supervise this calculation in the cases referred to in article R. 351-13 and to compare the best estimates with empirical observations. It provides an opinion on the over…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: NATIONAL BODIES RESPONSIBLE FOR MUNICIPALITIES AND THEIR GROUPINGS

Article L1831-2

…S PROVIDED FOR IN L. 1221-1 Law no. 2021-771 of 17 June 2021 ratifying ordinances no. 2021-45 of 20 January 2021 and no. 2021-71 of 27 January 2021 reforming the training of local elected representati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Audioprosthetists.

Article L4361-5

…who can prove that they have been regularly fitting hearing aids for at least five years prior to 4 January 1967; 3° Subject to passing a probationary professional examination, the conditions of which…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article R5211-12-1

…glomeration communities resulting from the transformation of a new agglomeration syndicate before 1 January 2015 and new agglomeration syndicates existing on 1 January 2015 is determined: 1° For the f…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 2: Apprehension on court order

Article R222-15

…R. 222-13, the applicant may ask the clerk's office to affix the executory clau…

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