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Showing 38813890 of 39348 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 15 May 2012 – no. 11-18.330

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article L811-11-3

The auditor of a debtor subject to safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings may not invoke professional secrecy in response to requests from the auditor of the court-appointed adm…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry in the Ile-de-France region

Article R711-11-1

…ives, its financing, the expected economic impact and the planned duration of the experiment, which may not exceed five renewable years.The study is sent to the supervisory authority. These experiment…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L641-11-1

…n or any contractual clause, no indivisibility, termination or resolution of a contract in progress may result solely from the opening or pronouncement of a judicial liquidation. The co-contractor mus…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Pre-assessment and request for treatment

Article R6323-11-1

If the employee has a fixed-term contract, he may apply to the relevant regional inter-professional joint committee for a vocational transition project during the term of his employment contract. The…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-11-1

…s Title or of Article 706-135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the form of full hospitalisation may benefit from short-term discharge authorisations: 1° In the form of accompanied outings not exce…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Operations of strategic interest to the French economy abroad

Article R442-11-3

…on covered by the guarantee represents an amount in excess of 10 million euros.III. - The guarantee may only be granted if it is necessary to substantially improve the conditions of participation of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for oncology surgery

Article R6123-92-11

…h designation A derogating from the minimum annual activity stipulated in I of article R. 6123-91-4 may be granted or renewed when, after analysis of the needs of the population, access to other sites…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-11

…special investigative techniques mentioned in this section. These special investigative techniques may be implemented if the requirements of the investigation or judicial inquiry relating to [Provisi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R23-112-1

…ployers' organisations whose statutory purpose is cross-industry in nature.No administrative appeal may be lodged against this decree.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Reorganisation measures for companies whose registered office is located in a Member State of the European Union

Article R*323-11

When it decides to implement one of the reorganisation measures defined in Article L. 323-8, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution : 1° As a matter of urgency, inform the competent auth…

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