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Showing 36613670 of 20136 articles for Art. Cass. com. 19 avril 2005 n° 03-11790

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Related agents

Article L775-29

I.-Subject to the provisions of II and III, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-ha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting rules.

Article R144-6

…ting Standards Authority) pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 1 of Law No. 98-261 of 6 April 1998 reforming accounting regulations and adapting the land registration system, as well as the acco…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article R3821-3

…Article R. 3115-15-1 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in the version resulting from Decree No. 2019-258 of 29 March 2019.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Staff representative bodies

Article R713-14

…cils. In companies which have joint departments in application of article 5 of the law of 8th April 1946, a number of seats which takes into account the size of the workforce in these departments in r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products)

Article R1245-34

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé is responsible for :1° Assigning the code defined in a of 2° of Article R. 1245-31 to the establishments it authorises pursuant…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: The institution and its missions.

Article L741-2

The profession of commercial court clerk is represented before the public authorities by a National Council of Commercial Court Clerks, which has legal personality and is responsible for defending its…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-20-1

…refer the matter to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article R151-3

…que celles-ci contribuent aux objectifs de sécurité alimentaire nationale mentionnés aux 1°, 17° et 19° du I de l'article L. 1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code ; 10° Publishing, printing…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L311-5

…ce de la vie publique a declaration of interests as provided for in III of the Article 4 of the loi n° 2013-907 du 11 octobre 2013 relative à la transparence de la vie publique. The commission's rules…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
8°: Financial products benefiting international organisations, foreign sovereign States, their central banks or financial institutions

Article 131 sexies

…banks of these States, are exempt from the withholding taxes provided for in 1 and 2 of l'article 119 bis et du prélèvement prévu au III de article 125 A.These investments must not constitute a direc…

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