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Showing 38913900 of 22424 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 10 Dec. 2003 – no. 01-11.923

French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
BOOK VI: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

Article R611-6

…the date of issue of this voucher or invoice. A surcharge of 10% shall be applied to the sum payable in the event of non-payment by the specified date.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Grants and other revenue allocated by the Local Finance Committee

Article L2334-40

…5 at least once during the last three financial years and was ranked, as far as municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more are concerned, at least once among the top two hundred and fifty pursuant…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1 : Formation of sociétés anonymes.

Article R225-13

…and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the same code, only the provisions of articles R. 22-10-6 to R. 22-10-8 and R. 22-10-12 are applicable to the formation of the company.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-13

…o the application of the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 1126-9 and article L. 1126-10, a national file shall be kept of persons who are free from any disease and who voluntarily take…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: General principles

Article L1130-1

…examination and the identification of a person by genetic fingerprinting are subject to articles 16-10 to 16-13 of the Civil Code, in particular to the terms and conditions of consent by this person t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Tax penalties

Article 1729 D

…fine equal to €5,000 or, in the event of rectification and if the amount is higher, an increase of 10% of the duties charged to the taxpayer. II. - Failure to send the accounts within the time limits…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

Article L956-4

For the application of articles L. 621-4, L. 621-10, L. 622-19, L. 622-24, L. 622-26, L. 625-4, L. 626-5, L. 626-20, L. 631-18, L. 641-1, L. 641-8, L. 641-14, L. 661-5 and L. 662-4, the institutions m…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors and General Management.

Article R225-33

…distributes among its members, where applicable under the conditions provided for in Article L. 22-10-8, the overall sums allocated to the directors in the form of attendance fees; in particular, it…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transfers of funds

Article L722-7

When cash in an amount equal to or greater than €10,000 or 1,193,300 CFP francs is part of a consignment coming from or going to a foreign country, without the intervention of a bearer, customs office…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial provisions.

Article R1211-11

…ts determine the costs of therapeutic withdrawals as they result from articles R. 1211-2 to R. 1211-10. Depending on the case, these costs are invoiced either to the establishment which carries out th…

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