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Showing 86818690 of 25610 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 7 Oct. 1997 – no. 95-14.158

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Powers of the Executive Council

Article LO6253-4

…authority; 4° Exercise of the right of pre-emption under the conditions defined in Article LO 6214-7.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Operating revenue.

Article R2331-1

…rtional to the number of kilowatt-hours produced from hydropower provided for in article L. 2331-2 (7°) is determined in accordance with the provisions of article 43 of the standard specifications app…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Special conditions

Article D542

…rcement court rules on an application for conditional release pursuant to the provisions of Article 730, it may make the application conditional on a measure of semi-liberty, work release or home dete…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R2311-8

…cle L. 2311-2 may only be granted to centres that meet the conditions laid down in articles R. 2311-7, R. 2311-9 and R. 2311-13.An order by the Minister for Health sets out the composition of the appl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Operating revenue

Article R3332-2

…hydropower is determined in accordance with the provisions adopted for the application of article 67 of law n° 53-79 of 7 February 1953 and relating to the fixing at uniform values of the proportiona…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Etablissement public de santé national de Fresnes.

Article R6147-90-1

…Etablissement public de santé de Fresnes is subject to the provisions of titles I and III of decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management, with the ex…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes II

Article Annexe II-10 (art. A212-167)

…cally accepted as equivalent to the State Sports Teaching Certificates mentioned in articles D. 212-70 to D. 212-83, for the corresponding degree and appearing opposite in column 2. COLUMN N° 1COLUMN…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-34

…nominative social declaration provided for inarticle R. 133-14 of the French Social Security Code; 7° (Deleted) 8° All documents attesting to the definitive classification of the video game with rega…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-223

…administrative supervision; 6° For each legal unit, the category of business, as defined by Decree no. 2008-1354 of 18 December 2008 on the criteria for determining the category to which a business b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article R225-160-4

I.-The register of purchases and sales provided for in article L. 225-211 to report transactions carried out pursuant to II of article L. 228-12 and of the I of article L. 228-12-1 is held under the t…

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