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Showing 59015910 of 21704 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 11 Mar. 2008 – no. 07-10.590

French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation

Article R211-6

…ations; 3° The internal organisation of the institution under the conditions defined in article L. 711-7 of the Education Code, in particular the creation of the directorates, departments, units, serv…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L1142-2

…self-employed basis, health establishments, health services and the bodies mentioned in article L. 1142-1, and any other legal entity, other than the State, carrying out prevention, diagnosis or care…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Regional health project

Article L1434-2

…ealthcare system in the event of an exceptional health situation, as referred to in article L. 3131-11.They may be implemented by the territorial health contracts defined in article L. 1434-12, by the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Operating revenue

Article L2331-2

…ributions and duties the collection of which is authorised by law in the interest of the communes ; 11° Allocations for the distribution of the global operating grant and, where applicable, the genera…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative organisation

Article R232-10

…ctions involving amounts in excess of a threshold set by the Board on a proposal from the Chairman; 11° The general terms and conditions for charging for services provided by the agency on behalf of t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Assets backing regulated commitments.

Article A332-1

…ions: 1° The guarantor must be a credit institution authorised to operate in France pursuant to Act no. 84-46 of 24 January 1984 , as amended, relating to the activity and control of credit institutio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties

Article L6241-2

…econd paragraph may not exceed 5,000 euros per day. III. - For the offences mentioned in 4°, 9° and 11° of Article L. 6241-1, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency may order the suspensio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-105-2

…The independent third-party body is subject to the incompatibilities provided for in article L. 822-11-3. II.-When the information is published by companies whose thresholds exceed 100 million euros f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-18

…ial police officers, natural or legal persons approved in accordance with the aforementioned Decree No. 97-109 of 6 February 1997 who have carried out the analyses, and staff acting under their respon…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Tax fraud, combating money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L772-10

…e words: "the Europol national unit mentioned in paragraph 2 of Article 7 of Regulation 2016/794 of 11 May 2016 on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)" are replaced by…

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