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Showing 22812290 of 20828 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 15 Mar. 1988 – no. 86-16362

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application.

Article L3261-1

…ate, local authorities and their public establishments, establishments mentioned inarticle 2 of law no. 86-33 of 9th January 1986 on statutory provisions relating to the hospital civil service and pub…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Authorisation for creation or transfer

Article R5126-89

The provisions of article R. 5126-85 and of the first paragraph of article R. 5126-86 relating to requests for the creation or transfer of pharmacies are applicable to requests for the closure of in-h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Proposal for redeployment leave

Article R1233-20

In the letter of notification of redundancy provided for in Articles L. 1233-15, in the event of less than ten employees being made redundant within the same thirty-day period, and L. 1233-39, in the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Account management

Article L4163-14

…entioned in the first paragraph may delegate the management functions mentioned in articles L. 4163-15, L. 4163-16 and L. 4163-18 by agreement. The term "managing body" referred to in Articles L. 4163…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Government auditors and financial activities auditors

Article D784-14

…right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 615-1n° 2005-1007 of 2 August 2005D. 615-2No. 2010-291 of 18 March 2010D. 615-3 to D. 615-7n° 2005-10…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Communication and registration of documents

Article A123-72

The National Institute of Industrial Property does not issue information on registrations and other registrations made before 1 March 1954.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Technical protection and information measures

Article L331-9

…obligations of the first paragraph under the conditions defined by the articles 42 and 48-1 of Law no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication.When a distributor of a radio or televi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Final provisions

Article L614-25

French nationals may claim the application for their benefit, in France, of the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on 20 March 1883,…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R322-7

…Commercial Code must contain, in addition to the information listed in articles 92 or 117 of decree no. 67-236 of 23 March 1967 on commercial companies, an indication of the amounts paid to the person…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article A822-28-9

Commissionaires aux comptes shall declare annually, by 31 March at the latest, to the Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes or its delegate, the conditions under which they have fulfilled their con…

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