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Showing 23012310 of 19880 articles for Art. Cass. com. 19 November 2013

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of the profession.

Article R4113-70

Subject to the application of Law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies and of the present section, all the legislative and regulatory provisions relating to th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Electronic money institutions

Article D775-16

…hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 526-2n° 2013-372 of 2 May 2013D. 526-3No. 2019-191 of 14 March 2019D. 526-5n° 2019-191 of 14 March 2019

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L613-21-6-1

…oint decision in accordance with the decision of the European Banking Authority pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Accounting and financial provisions

Article D1611-18

…enditure under the mandate, the same controls as those provided for in d and e of 2° of the article 19 of Decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management;- when t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 22: Materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs

Article R412-38

…d for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 1 to 5 and 15 to 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 2004 on materials and articles…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Voluntary termination of pregnancy by medication.

Article R6323-25

…dministered by a doctor at the centre under the conditions set out in articles R. 2212-9 to R. 2212-19.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 321-20

…321-19 correspond to operations or services carried out in France by companies…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to minimum capital requirements and eligible commitments

Article R613-46-1

…rticles 72a, 72b with the exception of point d of its paragraph 2 and 72c of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013. II - For the purposes of this Ar…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: International applications

Article L614-17

This section relates to the application of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, done at Washington on 19 June 1970, hereinafter referred to as the "Washington Treaty".

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions

Article R1238-3

…to issue an employee with an employment certificate, in breach of the provisions of article L. 1234-19, is punishable by a fourth-class fine.

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