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Showing 20212030 of 20000 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 17 April 1985

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: The borough mayor

Article L2511-28

…aragraph of article L. 2122-18 et l'article L. 2122-20.In the cases provided for in Article L. 2122-17, the borough mayor is replaced by one of his or her deputies who is a member of the city council…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to the measures imposed and their contestation

Article R733-18

…written off as regularisation of the payment incident pursuant to the provisions of article L. 733-17, the account-holding institution shall notify the Banque de France of this regularisation no late…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-23-2

The organisation of on-call duty and urgent medical transport as defined in articles R. 6312-17-1 and R. 6312-18 is monitored every six months by the medical transport sub-committee of the committee r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 8-4 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLE A. 814-3)

Article Annexe 8-4

…DIRECTORS OF THE CAISSE DE GARANTIE Recap of texts Article 72 of decree no. 85-1389 of 27 December 1985 (amended by decree no. 2004-518 of 10 June 2004):The guarantee fund is managed by a board of di…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical devices and other products and articles regulated in the interests of public health.

Article L5522-2

…3-2, L. 5211-6, L. 5212-2, L. 5212-3, L. 5213-1 and L. 5213-2, the references to Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 are replaced by references to t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IIIa: Community service

Article 733-2

…'article 712-6. In the event of non-performance of community service, the provisions of article 712-17 shall apply.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Appointment of the committee

Article R1124-2

…in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2004, a Data Protection Committee shall be appointed in accordance with the procedures defined…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 81 quater

…The remuneration, increases and elements of remuneration mentioned in I and III of article L. 241-17 of the social security code are exempt from income tax, under the conditions and limits set out i…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Law applicable to contracts

Article L232-1

…isions adopted by a Member State of the European Union pursuant to Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts, where the contract has a close link with the terri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Support systems for the general public and professionals to coordinate complex healthcare pathways

Article D6327-4

Each year, before 30 April, the coordination support mechanism sends the regional health agency and, where applicable, the departmental council, an activity report covering, in particular, the achieve…

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