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Showing 55915600 of 23676 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 1re 20 septembre 2012 n° 11-13144

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules for negotiating unemployment insurance agreements

Article L5424-23

…employers' or employees' organisation representing all the professions mentioned in article L. 5424-20. Such a request for assessment may also be submitted to it by a professional employers' organisat…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Measures to boost cinema distribution

Article 916-14

…mentioned in articles 222-7 and 222-8 and repertory works, released in cinemas between 2 September 2020 and 3 March 2021, may be increased.The amount of the increase is set, after consultation with t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Hospital cooperatives of doctors

Article L6163-1

Sociétés coopératives hospitalières de médecins are professional practice associations whose purpose is to practice medicine jointly as health establishments as defined by articles L. 6111-1 et seq, b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Availability of beneficiaries' rights

Article D3313-13

When a beneficiary requests payment of the profit-sharing in accordance with the provisions of article R. 3313-12, or when the profit-sharing is allocated to an employee savings plan, the company make…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Approval procedures for bodies carrying out inspections

Article R3115-43

…ure under the conditions laid down in article 1367 of the Civil Code and in implementing decree no. 2017-1416 of 28 September 2017, by 1 March of the following calendar year at the latest. The Prefect…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Control of legality

Article L2131-12

The provisions of articles L. 2131-1 to L. 2131-11 are applicable to communal public establishments.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Hearing and deliberation

Article R532-37

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 532-11, hearings of the Cour nationale du droit d'asile are public.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Automatic exclusions specific to defence or security concession contracts

Article L3123-13

The following are excluded from defence or security concession contracts: 1° Persons who have been convicted by a final judgment of one of the offences provided for in Articles 226-13, 222-52 to 222-5…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Operating conditions.

Article L812-5-1-A

The court-appointed agent may practise his profession within the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the enforcement judge

Article D49-34

The sentence enforcement judge may, without proceeding with the adversarial debate provided for in Article 712-6, declare by reasoned order that a request for sentence adjustment is inadmissible pursu…

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