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Showing 20712080 of 57361 articles for Art. Cass. com. 13 May 1997 · CA Rouen 2 December 1999

French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Dissolution and liquidation of the company

Article R743-139-31

…ompany, the copy of the dispatch provided for in the first paragraph, of which any interested party may obtain communication.He may not take up his duties until the aforementioned formalities have bee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-43-13

An integration workshop or site may enter into open-ended contracts as referred to in article D. 5132-43-5, up to a limit of 20% of the number of full-time integration workstations set out in the agre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions relating to the electronic recognition of professional qualifications of regulated professions

Article R123-30-13

The administrative authority responsible for implementing the data processing service may not keep the information and documents contained in the file beyond a period of two months, starting from the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Conditions specific to the modality: "systemic drug treatments for cancer".

Article D6124-134-7

The authorised establishment must : 1° Comply with the medication circuit and take into account the criteria in the certification manual for healthcare establishments; 2° Formalise the steps involved…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reserving contracts for economic operators employing disabled and disadvantaged workers

Article L2113-13-1

Contracts or parts of a contract may be reserved for economic operators who carry them out as part of the production of goods and services that they provide in prisons and who, in accordance with the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Terms of office of board or committee members.

Article L5211-13-1

…annual resolution, the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation may make a vehicle available to its members or to the public establishment's employees when this is…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13-1

I. - The Autorité des marchés financiers may appoint a provisional administrator for a person referred to in Article L. 543-1, to whom all powers of administration, management and representation of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions (R).

Article R5211-13-5

…ions made in administrative form by public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation, a deposit may be paid to the seller, upon expiry of the periods open for taking registrations with retroactive…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Operation

Article L2121-13-1

…te. In order to enable the exchange of information on matters falling within its remit, the commune may, under the conditions defined by its deliberative assembly, make available to its elected member…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-13

The opinion of the College provided for in article L. 1142-24-5 specifies, for each head of loss, the circumstances, causes, nature and extent of the damage suffered and its assessment of the liabilit…

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