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Showing 39813990 of 23051 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 10 July 2007 – no. 05-19.373

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-27

Each shareholder may, at any time, inspect, under the conditions set out in Article 48 of Decree no. 78-704 of 3 July 1978, the company's annual financial statements and the report on the company's re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Investment services providers

Article R775-17

…rticle R. 531-1 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Decree no. 2022-125 of 4 February 2022, subject to the deletion in the second paragraph of the words: "in a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The High Council of Statutory Auditors

Article R821-14-16

…s Chairman with the approval of the accounting officer under the conditions laid down in the decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on the revenue and imprest accounts of public bodies and by the account…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: Provisions specific to Saint-Barthélemy.

Article R965-1

For the application of Article R. 526-20, the reference to Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation

Article R4021-18

…nale du développement professionnel continu are reimbursed under the conditions laid down by decree no. 2006-781 of 3 July 2006 setting the conditions and procedures for payment of expenses incurred b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Establishments and organisations authorised to combat leprosy

Article D3112-12

…necessary, withdrawn or suspended, under the conditions laid down in articles D. 3112-8 and D. 3112-10.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Increases

Article R7422-11

For the application of the increases mentioned in article R. 7422-10, days of the week other than Sundays and public holidays are considered to be working days. In the case of overtime, the percentage…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article L441-16

…be imposed for:a) Failing to comply with the payment deadlines provided for in I of Article L. 441-10, II of Article L. 441-11, Article L. 441-12 and Article L. 441-13;b) Not indicating, in the terms…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Proposal for redeployment leave

Article R1233-18

…implementing the redeployment leave, together with the information provided for in articles L. 1233-10, in the event of less than ten employees being made redundant within the same thirty-day period,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Unused medicinal products for human use.

Article R4211-24

…dicines and, where applicable, their packaging, under the conditions set out in I of article L. 541-10 of the Environmental Code. They carry out the following operations: 1° Providing pharmacies with…

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