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Showing 77417750 of 24422 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 20 Sept. 2011 – no. 10-21.623

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-7-1

…ce under the freedom of establishment or the freedom to provide services pursuant to article L. 532-20-1.Where the SICAV does not delegate the management of its portfolio as referred to in the first p…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for using an adapted procedure

Article R2323-1

…ervices or €1 million excluding tax for works; b) The aggregate value of these lots does not exceed 20% of the total estimated value of all the lots.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Registrations and amending registrations carried out ex officio

Article R123-299

…to open safeguard or receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings opened on or after 26 June 2018, without prejudice to 1° of Article R. 123-298, the following information is also requested to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and mandate of employee representatives

Article R1233-13

…I of article L. 1233-5, articles 30, 32 to 34, 36 to 41, 45 and 46 of the above-mentioned decree of 20 November 2020 are applicable. For the application of article 32, the reference to article L. 2314…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Apprenticeships and continuing vocational training for adults (R).

Article R4332-1

…according to the structure and level of qualification of the working population in each region; 2° 20% according to the capacity of the existing training system in each region.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-26-11

…ociation may conclude open-ended contracts as referred to in article D. 5132-26-9, up to a limit of 20% of the number of full-time integration workstations set out in the agreement. By way of derogati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-21

…representative departmental emergency medical transport association referred to in article R. 6312-20 and after obtaining the opinion of the medical transport sub-committee, the Director General of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Calculation of tax

Article 220

…o benefit from the tax credit. b) With regard to the foreign source income referred to in articles 120 to 123, the deduction is limited to the amount of the credit corresponding to the tax withheld at…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Insurance obligation

Article L321-5

Approved sports federations may conclude collective insurance contracts to cover affiliated associations and their licence-holders under the conditions set out in articles L. 321-1, L. 321-4, L. 321-6…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Compulsory licences in the interests of public health

Article R613-22

The licence applicant, the patent owner and the licence holders or their representatives may be heard by the committee responsible for issuing the opinions provided for in articles R. 613-10 and R. 61…

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