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Showing 27312740 of 39348 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 15 May 2012 – no. 11-18.330

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Criminal court

Article R41-11

In application of Article 523, the police court may not be constituted by a magistrate exercising a temporary function or an honorary magistrate exercising jurisdictional functions for the trial of th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-11

…f capital, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in its capacity as group supervisor may nevertheless allow the solvency deficit of the subsidiary to be taken into account on a proporti…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter V: Customs clearance procedures in relations between certain countries and territories.

Article 119 bis

…the legislative or regulatory measures in force for export from that territory. 2. These provisions may be extended, with the agreement of the qualified authorities, to direct relations between the cu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Manufacture and sale of beverages.

Article L3322-11

…mentioned in 1°, the conditions of their use and their maximum active product content. These texts may not in any way derogate from the provisions established by the decrees of the Conseil d'Etat iss…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3821-11

…ook I of this Part is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Law no. 2022-1089 of 30 July 2022 putting an end to the exceptional regimes created to combat the epidem…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Protection of sole traders

Article L526-11

…ts. The same joint or undivided property or the same part of a joint or undivided real estate asset may be included in the composition of only one affected patrimony. Where the assignment or withdrawa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operation of imprest accounts (R)

Article R1617-11

Unless a dispensation is granted by the Minister responsible for the budget, only the following may be paid through an imprest account: 1° Equipment and operating expenses not included in a public con…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R3354-11

…sample, together with one copy of sheets A and B, to another expert biologist on the same list who may be responsible for carrying out the control analysis. The expert biologist in charge of the anal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article D1424-32-11

…refect shall request the repayment of all or part of the grant in the cases provided for in article 15 of décret n°99-1060 du 16 décembre 1999.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1c: Capital gains realised in the course of an agricultural, craft, commercial, industrial or liberal activity

Article 151 septies A

…dered to be assets allocated to the exercise of the profession within the meaning of I of l'article 151 nonies ;3° The transferor ceases to hold any position in the sole proprietorship transferred or…

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