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Showing 50715080 of 22073 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 31 Mar. 2015 – no. 14-10.346

French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Law applicable to contracts

Article L232-5

The consumer may not be deprived of the protection afforded by the provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 2008/122/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on the protecti…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Relations between sports associations and companies

Article L122-19

A Conseil d'Etat decree specifies the stipulations that must be included in the agreement provided for in article L. 122-14, in particular the conditions of use by the company or transfer to it of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Receipt and investigation by the public prosecutor of the application for recognition and enforcement.

Article 728-39

The public prosecutor may ask the competent authority of the sentencing State whether it consents to the sentenced person being prosecuted, sentenced or deprived of liberty in France for an offence co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Criminal provisions

Article L2317-2

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 2312-19, the failure, in a company with at least three hundred employees or in a separate establishment with at least three hundred employe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions applicable to cross-border service providers

Article R123-30-6

For the processing of registration declarations and applications for authorisation or declarations prior to the exercise of the activity, the provisions of article R. 123-1 with the exception of 1° of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R5334-2

…budget of the syndicat d'agglomération nouvelle are defined by the decree mentioned in article R. 2311-1. The budget is voted in accordance with the conditions set out in article R. 5211-14. The prov…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Operating conditions.

Article L811-7-1-A

…in the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal profess…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions for the sale by auction of an immovable property

Article R742-34

No later than the fifth working day following the filing of the conditions of sale, the liquidator notifies the parties of the date of the auction hearing by bailiff's deed. The date is set, at the li…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Definition

Article R426-16

…mployee of a company established abroad, subject to the provisions of articles L. 421-30 and L. 421-31, to follow a training course provided by a body referred to in article L. 6351-1 of the Labour Co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article R223-26

…he meeting is recorded by him in the register provided for in the third paragraph of Article L. 223-31. The register is kept at the registered office. It shall be listed and initialled, either by a ju…

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