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Showing 12611270 of 18775 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 26 Feb. 2008 – no. 06-20.272

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article D775-10

Article D. 521-1 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Appeals to the Paris Court of Appeal against decisions of the Competition Authority.

Article R464-12

…dicate the name and address of the department referred to in the second paragraph of Article R. 464-26;2° The subject of the appeal and, where applicable, the part of the decision to which the applica…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Obligations of members and the company.

Article R322-71

…s of this article do not apply to companies operating one or more of the classes mentioned in 20 to 26 of article R. 321-1.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R322-139

The tontines referred to in article L. 322-26-4 group their members into separate groups known as associations and, on the expiry of each association, distribute the funds arising from the joint capit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: External action by local and regional authorities

Article D1115-5

The provisions of Title II of decree no. 55-733 of 26 May 1955 on the codification and amendment of texts relating to the economic and financial control of the State and, where applicable, those of dé…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Preventing business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures.

Article R611-20

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Association with the public hospital service

Article R6112-7

…the other hand, within the framework of the emergency care networks provided for in article R. 6123-26. In the event of suspension or withdrawal of the authorisation mentioned in the first paragraph a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General information

Article L721-9

…efit from accreditation issued by the national accreditation body referred to in article 137 of Law no. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 on the modernisation of the economy, or by the national accreditation…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article R511-2-1-2

…nterprise, an intermediate-sized enterprise or a large enterprise, as defined inarticle 3 of decree no. 2008-1354 of 18 December 2008 on the criteria for determining the category to which an enterpris…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-36-2

…rs before the marketing authorisation lapses is counted from : 1° the date of publication of Decree No. 2008-435 of 6 May 2008 for marketing authorisations issued up to that date, with the exception o…

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