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Showing 23112320 of 20118 articles for Art. Cass. com. 20 mars 2007 n° 05-19225

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Conditions for holding office as a member of the community council.

Article L5215-17

…mmunity councillor are at most equal to 28% of the reference term mentioned in I of article L. 2123-20.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Continuation of the business during the observation period.

Article R631-22

…nistrator, where his task is to administer the company alone. For the application of article R. 622-20, the administrator is implicated regardless of his mission.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employment during school holidays

Article D4153-3

…ation may not be less than the minimum growth wage, taking into account a deduction of no more than 20%.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Substitution of the user for the modelling agency in the event of insufficient security

Article R7123-40

The user who has paid the sums defined in article R. 7123-20 that are still due is subrogated, up to the same amount, to all the rights of the employees and the social security bodies against the mode…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 28: Energy labelling

Article R412-43-1

…L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 1 to 7 and 9 to 11 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2013 of 11 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Specific part

Article A212-123

…ient 4) comprising: - a written exam on the technical aspects of the sport concerned (marked out of 20; duration: three hours; coefficient 2); - an oral exam on the socio-economic and legal environmen…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Advertising

Article A743-12

…any positive or negative registration statement, regardless of the number of registrations 2.24 € 120 Cancellation certificate 1.13 € 121, broken down into: 121-1 Advertising of rental agreements Mai…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Written agreements

Article L441-3

I.-A written agreement concluded between the supplier, with the exception of suppliers of products mentioned in article L. 443-2, and the distributor or service provider sets out the reciprocal obliga…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Public territorial establishments

Article L5219-2

…r inter-municipal cooperation known as "territorial public establishments" are created on 1 January 2016. Subject to the provisions of this chapter, these public establishments are subject to the prov…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R355-4

…this article, the entities benefiting from an exemption from disclosure may not represent more than 20% of the gross non-life insurance premiums written by all the undertakings referred to in Article…

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