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Showing 27012710 of 19635 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 1re – 23 Mar. 2011 – no. 09-66512

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Financial holding companies, parent companies of finance companies and investment holding companies

Article L775-11

…e In their wording resulting from L. 517-1 with the exception of its last four paragraphs Ordinance no. 2020-1635 of 21 December 2020 L. 517-4-3 with the exception of its second paragraph and L. 517-1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Advisory Committee (R).

Article R2113-20

…icipal council of the new commune to complete, under the conditions provided for in article L. 2113-23 as it read prior to the loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article L5211-26

I. - A decree or, as the case may be, an order puts an end to the exercise of the competences of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation whose dissolution is requested, required or ips…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Powers and prerogatives

Article L561-26

The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 may, for a maximum renewable period of six months, designate to the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2, for the implementation of their customer du…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-13

…ntation demonstrating that the model meets the requirements set out in Articles R. 352-18 to R. 352-23. Insurance and reinsurance undertakings may use partial internal models to calculate one or more…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue and withdrawal of delegations

Article R131-28-1

…nal bodies when they have legal personality; 8° The framework agreement mentioned in article R. 131-23; 9° The agreements signed between the Agence nationale du sport and the federation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors.

Article D6431-2

…among the members of the Agency Committee representing the colleges referred to in Article D. 6431-23, by secret uninominal ballot and by an absolute majority; if this majority is not achieved in the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-36

…on due to its classification as a narcotic or the application of the provisions of articles R. 5132-23 or R. 5132-39 ; 3° A medicinal product subject to restricted prescription pursuant to the provisi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General rules

Article L5842-2

…to the adaptations provided for in II to IV. APPLICABLE PROVISIONS AS PROVIDED FOR IN L. 5211-1 law no. 2022-217 of 21 February 2022 L. 5211-2 law no. 2011-525 of 17 May 2011 L. 5211-3 Order no. 2021-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article D211-1 A

…ception of wholesale energy products, as defined in point 4 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 concerning the integrity and t…

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