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Showing 71517160 of 19301 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 18 Jan. 2011 – no. 09-72.510

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors.

Article D6431-10

In order to ensure their attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors, those of its members who are employees of the agency are granted leave of absence for a period equal to that of their working…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3a: Departmental Mobilisation Fund for Integration

Article L3334-16-2

…ph. The amount of the fund is reduced by the total amount of credits allocated under this fund in 2018 to the territorial collectivity of French Guyana and the Department of Mayotte and in 2019 to the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 decies F

…e benefit of the deduction is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 80 duodecies

…icles L. 1235-1, L. 1235-2, L. 1235-3, L. 1235-3-1, L. 1235-11 to L. 1235-13, 7° of Article L. 1237-18-2 and 5° of Article L. 1237-19-1 of the French Labour Code as well as those paid under the measur…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4151-5

…a midwife issued by a Member State or a Member State Party, attesting to training that began before 18 January 2016.The list of certificates that must accompany evidence of formal qualifications is se…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Approvals and changes to shareholdings

Article R612-20-1

…ce Code, supplementary occupational pension mutuals or unions authorised pursuant to Article L. 222-18 of the Mutual Code, institutions for supplementary occupational retirement provision authorised p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 17: Conditions for authorisation of individually prepared advanced therapy medicinal products

Article R5121-210

…applied and the results of the risk analysis;3° Where the standards referred to in Article R. 5211-18 are not applied in full, a description of the solutions adopted to meet the essential requirement…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Duties of sworn goods brokers

Article L131-25

Sworn goods brokers issue certificates of the course of goods when these have been established under the conditions provided for in Article L. 131-24. If this is not the case, they draw up price state…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article L122-6-2

Any advertising or instructions for use relating to means enabling the removal or neutralisation of any technical device protecting software must state that the unlawful use of such means is punishabl…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Fees levied on the issue, renewal and supply of duplicates of residence permits and travel documents for foreign minors

Article L436-6

Articles L. 436-1 to L. 436-5 apply, depending on the case, to the application, issue, renewal and supply of duplicates of residence permits and travel documents for foreign minors provided for by int…

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