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Showing 19711980 of 36440 articles for Art. Cass. com. 23 mai 2006 n° 04-19551

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to non-compliance with disqualifications imposed on service providers

Article L774-46

The articles listed in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1 : Examination for admission to the probationary period, probationary period and examination to qualify as a court-appointed administrator

Article R811-8

Holders of the Diplôme d'études comptables supérieures previously governed by Decree no. 81-537 of 12 May 1981 relating to the Diplôme d'études comptables supérieures are considered, for the purposes…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-15

…sary to provide each partner with a copy and to comply with the provisions of l'article 7 du décret n° 78-704 du 3 juillet 1978 et à celles de la présente sous-section.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-73

…ion nationale de l'informatique et des libertés when completing the formalities provided for by loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Special arrangements applicable to intra-Community distance sales of goods, to supplies of goods made in a Member State via electronic interfaces facilitating such supplies, and to services supplied by taxable persons established within the territory of the European Union but not in the Member State of consumption

Article 298 sexdecies G

…scheme provided for in Section 3 of Chapter 6 of Title XII of the aforementioned Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 may not, in respect of his taxable activities covered by this specia…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article A134-1

For the application of Article R. 134-2, notwithstanding Article 142-3 of Regulation No. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorité des normes comptables relating to the accounting framework for insu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L1134-1

When a dispute arises due to a failure to comply with the provisions of Chapter II, the applicant for a job, an internship or a training period in a company or the employee must present evidence sugge…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Composition of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee and procedures for electing and appointing its members

Article R1432-90

The procedures for organising electoral operations, the creation of polling stations and polling sections, their organisation and the conditions under which the Director General of the Agency appoints…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation procedures.

Article R5141-37

In the event of a change in the classification or maximum residue limit of a pharmacologically active substance in application of Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Coun…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Treasury bills

Article L213-31

…eaches of banking regulations, any failure to comply with the obligations set out in Article L. 213-23 shall result in the loss of interest accrued during the period of irregular holding on the amount…

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