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Showing 551560 of 32005 articles for Art. Cass. com. 15 October 1996 n° 94-18.903 · CA Paris 7 November 2014 n° 12/17749

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-15

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Periodic updating of the rental value of built and unbuilt properties

Article 1518 bis

In the interval between two updates provided for by article 1518, property rental values, with the exception of those of properties assessed under the conditions provided for in article 1498, are incr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Chairman and Vice-Chairman

Article R1423-15

…ticle R. 1423-23 to elect a new chairman or a new vice-chairman when one of these offices becomes vacant for one of the following reasons: 1° Refusal of the chairman or vice-chairman to be installed;…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Appeal procedures

Article L327-15

Decisions handed down by the Enforcement Board may be appealed to the Paris Court of Appeal by the sanctioned organisation or by the chairman of the Enforcement Board. Such appeals do not have suspens…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Powers of the Board of Directors of the joint association

Article R2135-15

…y level determined under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph of I of article L. 2135-15 and according to the rule of proportional representation by the highest average. The total number…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Reserving contracts for social economy enterprises

Article L2113-15

…ntracting entity, for companies in the social and solidarity economy defined inArticle 1 of Law No. 2014-856 of 31 July 2014 on the social and solidarity economy or equivalent structures, when their p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals provided for in Article L. 464-8.

Article R464-12

The appeals provided for in article L. 464-8 shall be lodged by a written statement in triplicate lodged against a receipt at the registry of the Paris Court of Appeal containing, under penalty of nul…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals provided for in Article L. 464-8.

Article R464-15-1

Where the appellant is unrepresented, he shall without delay inform the court registry, the parties before the appeal court and the minister responsible for the economy, where he is not a party to the…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-15

…report; 4° The financial account, and the report noting the existence of any surpluses; 5° The allocation of the surplus of the net accounting result after deduction, where applicable, of the dividen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation and penalties.

Article L1226-15

…ng to the reinstatement of the employee, as provided for inarticle L. 1226-8, the court hearing the case may propose that the employee be reinstated in the company, with his acquired benefits being ma…

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