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Showing 32613270 of 44559 articles for Art. Cass. com. 19 November 2002 · Cass. com. 5 May 2004

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Rules specific to the election of employee representatives

Article R1411-58-10

…rganised in accordance with the following procedures, subject to the provisions of articles R. 1411-58-11 and R. 1411-58-12: 1° In the event of a nominal or multi-member ballot: for each staff represe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Direct access to specialised technical facilities

Article R6123-32-5

Any establishment referred to in article R. 6123-32-2 which has signed the agreement referred to in this article must inform the public that it provides ongoing care for patients in the field in which…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1431-5

…procedures set out in this order. The latter also determines the conditions under which a candidate may, at his or her request, be exempted from holding a diploma and his or her professional experienc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-5

Home detention with electronic surveillance may be ordered, ex officio or at the request of the person concerned, by the investigating judge or by the liberty and custody judge if the person under inv…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Selection of donors.

Article R1221-5

…ormed, in the case of autologous donation, of the possibility that autologous labile blood products may not be sufficient to meet the requirements of the planned transfusion. They also certify that al…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Initial registrations

Article R521-5

…e entry is made in a register kept by the competent registrar. This registrar shall be, as the case may be, the registrar of the commercial court, the registrar of the judicial court ruling on commerc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation.

Article R1411-58

…members of the High Council and the experts on a list drawn up by the Chairman of the High Council may be paid a fixed fee for the work they carry out. These fixed fees, the procedures for which and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisional profit and loss account for training schools and institutes.

Article R6145-56

…provisional profit and loss account for the schools and institutes mentioned in 3° of article R. 6145-12 shows the operating costs and income attributable to the activity of these schools and institut…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article R134-5

…graph of I of article L. 134-4, the objection provided for in the fifth paragraph of article L. 134-5 and the request for withdrawal provided for in the first two paragraphs of article L. 134-6 are no…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for exercising the right to vote and stand for election and rules applicable to the conduct of the ballot for the election of members to the board of directors of the Ecole nationale des sports de montagne and to the advisory boards of the Ecole nationale de ski et d'alpinisme and the Centre national de ski nordique et de moyenne montagne

Article A211-50

…4° College of administrative staff at the Centre national de ski nordique et de moyenne montagne; 5° Collège des personnels ouvriers et des personnels techniques et de service de l'Ecole nationale d…

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