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Showing 39713980 of 21675 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 16 Nov. 2022 – no. 21-10.126

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Occupational health medical file

Article R4624-45-8

…may also exercise his rights of rectification, erasure and restriction, as provided for in Articles 16 to 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, with the occupational health and prevention service. Subject t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article R4322-14

…nd examined in accordance with the procedures laid down by the order referred to in Article R. 4322-16. The Prefect acknowledges receipt of the application within one month of its receipt and, where a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to practise the profession who are nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R4393-9

…nd examined in accordance with the procedures laid down by the order referred to in article R. 4393-16. The Prefect acknowledges receipt of the application within one month of its receipt and, if nece…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Joint associations of local authorities, groups of local authorities and other legal entities governed by public law

Article L5843-2

…the adaptations provided for in II to VIII. APPLICABLE PROVISIONS AS PROVIDED FOR IN L. 5721-1 law no. 96-142 of 21 February 1996 L. 5721-2 law no. 2019-1461 of 27 December 2019 L. 5721-2-1 law no. 2…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedures for ratifying agreements in companies with fewer than eleven employees

Article L2232-22-1

The procedures for revision and denunciation provided for in Article L. 2232-22 are applicable to collective agreements, regardless of the procedures for their conclusion, when the undertaking subsequ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Mutual and cooperative banks.

Article R512-23

Only caisses registered on the list provided for in article R. 512-21 may use the designation Caisse de crédit mutuel and include this designation in their name, company name or advertising, and use i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Aeration and sanitation

Article R4212-7

In an instruction manual sent to the employer, the project manager specifies the measures taken for ventilation and sanitation of the premises and the information required for maintaining the installa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2a: Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale de greffiers des tribunaux de commerce (financial holding companies for the liberal professions of commercial court registrars)

Article R743-139-22

Natural or legal persons practising as court-appointed administrators or judicial representatives may not hold, either directly or indirectly, shares or corporate units in a société de participations…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cafés, public houses and pubs

Article D312-2

…he Public Health Code, reproduced in article L. 313-1 of this Code, are set out in articles D. 3335-16 to D. 3335-18 of the Public Health Code, reproduced below: "Art. D. 3335-16 of the Public Health…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Acts and decisions subject to the procedure provided for in Article 696-114

Article 696-125

…execute the arrest warrant in the form of a European arrest warrant in accordance with Article 695-16.

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