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Showing 441450 of 36323 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 18 May 2010

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-18

…emoval of an electronic money institution from the list of authorised electronic money institutions may be ordered as a disciplinary sanction by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.Fo…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific measures applicable to establishments and products

Article L521-18

The Minister responsible for consumption or the minister(s) concerned may issue warnings to manufacturers, importers or distributors and ask them to bring the products they offer to the public into co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Disputes.

Article R2362-18

…n Cooperative Society, the legal entity, the subsidiary or the establishment concerned, as the case may be, or the domicile of the natural person participating in the formation of the European Coopera…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-18

I.-The persons authorised to access the processing for the purposes of consulting, recording and modifying data are the Commission's authorised agents and, where applicable, subcontractors recruited u…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial and statistical monitoring

Article R5134-18

The Agence de Services et de Paiement is authorised to carry out automated processing of personal data contained in decisions to award employability assistance. The purpose of the automated processing…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title IX bis : Agreements relating to the exercise of undivided rights

Article 1873-1

…e who have rights to be exercised over undivided property, as owners, bare owners or usufructuaries may enter into agreements relating to the exercise of these rights.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the practice of the profession.

Article R4342-18

…meet the conditions laid down in Article L. 4342-2 for the practice of the profession of orthoptist may use the title of orthoptist.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title VIII bis: Property development contracts

Article 1831-3

…cial mandates given to the developer continue between the developer and the assignee. The developer may not substitute a third party for himself in the performance of the obligations he has entered in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Investment of sums held in the automatic online broadcast account

Article 612-18

Payment of the sums for which investment is requested may only be made on presentation of supporting documents corresponding to the expenditure incurred by the on-demand audiovisual media service publ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Complaints

Article L4163-18

…xtent of his exposure to the occupational risk factors mentioned in article L. 4163-1, the employee may only submit a claim to the management body relating to the opening of the professional preventio…

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