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Showing 26112620 of 19311 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 3e – 21 Oct. 1998 – no. 96-16537

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article L613-33

…nto account the supervision exercised by the competent authorities mentioned in 2 of article L. 511-21.In order to carry out this supervision or for information or statistical purposes or to assess wh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Water and sanitation.

Article D2573-22

…es R. 2224-19 to R. 2224-19-4 and R. 2224-19-6 to R. 2224-19-10 and articles R. 2224-20 and R. 2224-21 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 septdecies

…ea transport. This article also applies to agents of the departments mentioned in Article L. 5112-1-21 of the Transport Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions

Article L1133-8

…ommit the offence or of the thing that is the product of the offence, in accordance witharticle 131-21 of the Criminal Code; c) permanent disqualification, or disqualification for a maximum of five ye…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Prevention of conflicts of interest

Article L522-1

In addition to the obligations imposed on him or her pursuant to the provisions of Articles L. 521-1, L. 521-2 and L. 521-3 and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2359 of 21 September 2017, the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-9

…tion, and the procedures provided for in the articles L. 612-14, L. 612-15 and 1° of article L. 612-21 may not be committed.Subject to Article L. 612-10, the authorisation provided for in the first pa…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Register of unavailable books from the 20th century

Article R134-1

…que nationale de France's online public access service. A new list of unavailable books is added on 21 March each year, if that is a working day, or on the first working day thereafter. The list of un…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-12

…tion fund has been granted are considered to be difficult works. By way of derogation from articles 211-20, 211-21, 211-22, 311-18, 311-19 and 411-9, the intensity of public aid granted for the produc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-19

…with others, only an insignificant interest in relation to the objective defined in Article L. 233-21 ; 3° The information required to prepare the consolidated financial statements cannot be obtained…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter XX: Levies on betting and gaming

Article 302 bis ZI

…online circle games organised and operated under the conditions laid down by the article 14 of Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 relating to the opening up to competition and the regulation of the onli…

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