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Showing 43614370 of 35823 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 28 May 2002 – no. 00-16.857

French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consolidated and combined financial statements

Article R345-1-2

The appointment of the entity responsible for preparing and publishing the combined accounts is the subject of a written agreement between all the entities whose cohesion does not result from capital…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article L613-30-2

The opening of safeguard, receivership or liquidation proceedings, as well as any enforcement proceedings and any equivalent legal proceedings opened under foreign law against an electronic money inst…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Validation of data in the National Register of Companies and checks carried out by certain authorities

Article R123-279

…Article L. 613-7 of the Social Security Code; 3° If its activity comes under the article 16 of law no. 96-603 of 5 July 1996 relating to the development and promotion of trade and craft trades, the i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article R50-36

…ppear in the National Register for the Identification of Natural Persons, although this information may not be used as a search criterion; b) Successive home addresses and, where applicable, the corre…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-11

…insurers, if any, who will then have a period of fifteen days in which to send it any comments they may have. II - The experts appointed by the Chairman of the College shall send their draft report to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Commission de conciliation et d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales.

Article R1142-10

…Chairman, the Deputy Chairmen, if any, and the members of the Commission, as well as the work that may be entrusted to staff from the Office made available to the Commission pursuant to article L. 11…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedure before the liberty and custody judge

Article R3211-12

…ng treatment, stating the medical reasons that would prevent him or her from being heard. The judge may request any other useful information.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Brokers, commission agents, carriers and commercial agents.

Article A134-2

In support of his declaration, the applicant shall submit: I. In all cases, a copy of the written document signed with a principal, mentioning the content of the agency contract, or, failing that, any…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Installation conditions

Article R5125-9

…and officinal preparations and of a size appropriate to this activity. Where appropriate, this room may be used non-simultaneously for the preparation of doses to be administered, as referred to in ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Obstetrics, neonatology, neonatal resuscitation.

Article D6124-41

…for Health. When the unit's activity is less than 1,200 deliveries per year, the operating theatre may not be located in the birth sector, provided that it is included in an operating theatre, in the…

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