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Showing 16411650 of 36097 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 3e – 30 May 2007 – no. 06-13268

French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions of validity.

Article L2232-12

…signed both by the employer and by representative trade union organisations that received more than 30% of the votes cast for representative organisations in the first round of the elections mentioned…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Rural solidarity grant.

Article L2334-22

…l potential of communes belonging to the same demographic group.This fraction is distributed:1° For 30% of its amount, according to the population weighted by the difference between the commune's per…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Classes of affected parts.

Article L626-31

…ft plan has been adopted by each of the classes in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 626-30-2, the court shall rule on it in accordance with the procedures set out in Section 2 of this chap…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Withdrawal and dissolution

Article R1431-21

…lishment for cultural or environmental cooperation, the board of directors shall meet no later than 30 June of the year following the dissolution, in order to vote on the administrative account and to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Savings and provident institutions

Article L512-89

The shares of the savings and provident institutions may only be held by the local savings companies. The Articles of Association of the savings and provident institutions and of the local savings com…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Authorisations.

Article L6122-5

…akes into account compliance with the benchmarks mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 162-30-3 of the Social Security Code and, where applicable, the results of the programme mentioned in th…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 2: Seizures in the hands of the debtor

Article R221-17

…R. 221-30 to R. 221-32. These declarations are mentioned in the deed. A copy of the writ…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-34

Subject to the sanctions provided for in Articles R. 411-29, R. 411-30 and R. 411-32, the submissions shall be notified to the parties' lawyers and sent to the Director General of the National Institu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Administrative police measures

Article R784-7

…ght-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 612-30n° 2010-217 of 3 March 2010R. 612-30-1No. 2014-1357 of 13 November 2014R. 612-31n° 2010-217 of 3 M…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Minimum operating grant.

Article R3334-3-1

…distributed among the metropolitan départements that meet the conditions for its allocation:1° For 30% of its amount, in proportion to the length of the road classified in the departmental public dom…

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