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Showing 16511660 of 53735 articles for Art. Cass. com. 12 January 1999 · Cass. 1re civ. 20 December 2012 · Cass. com. 29 January 2002 · Cass. com. 3 May 2012

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Conditions for issuing, suspending or revoking approval for bodies providing training for local elected representatives (R)

Article R1221-20

All the documents provided for in Article R. 1221-19 shall be sent to the Prefect at least three months before the expiry of the approval.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1a: Protection of the identity of certain officials involved in criminal proceedings

Article R2-20

The administrative registration number by which the beneficiary of the authorisations mentioned in I of Article 15-4 is identified in the procedural documents that it draws up or in which it is cited…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-20

…the court of appeal, its payment to the claimant is, notwithstanding the provisions of article R. 233, carried out by the Regional Director of Public Finances for Ile-de-France and the Paris departme…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-20

At the hearing, the commission, where it considers that the case should be referred to another hearing, shall immediately set the date of that hearing. When the parties are neither present nor represe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-207

Unless otherwise stipulated, articles R. 214-32-9 to D. 214-33 apply to funds covered by this sub-section.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Crédit Mutuel.

Article R512-20

…the regional federation to which they must belong in accordance with the provisions of article L. 512-56.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Pursuit of the activity of entrepreneur of live performances on an ancillary basis

Article L7122-20

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of this section.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules

Article R1132-20

When participating in research involving the human person, the genetic counsellor must comply with the provisions of Title II of Book I of Part I of this Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-20

When the nature of the element or product of the human body removed or collected and the uses envisaged for it allow this without impairing the effectiveness of these uses, treatments, in particular p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R1243-20

Subject to the provision of the second paragraph relating to blood establishments, the establishment or authorised body shall set up a scientific council or a medico-technical committee, responsible i…

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