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Showing 13811390 of 48231 articles for Art. Cass. com. 26 April 1984 · Cass. com. 4 May 1982 · CA Grenoble 21 December 2006

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Harm reduction

Article R3411-21

…ible for placing the product on the market to reimburse the overcompensation and the parameters for calculating the compensation will be updated for the future. Where the amount of overcompensation do…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Federal performance projects

Article R221-21

…h mainly takes in athletes registered on the list of "Espoirs" athletes provided for in article R. 221-11 and enables them to benefit from the training and preparation provided for in 1° to 3° of arti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 217 septdecies

…Mutual Code and provident institutions governed by Title III of Book IX of the Social Security Code may allocate a special solvency reserve account up to the amount of taxable income for the financial…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 5: Transportation of the body after committal (R).

Article R2213-21

After the coffin has been closed, the body of a deceased person may not be transported to a commune other than that in which this operation took place, without a prior declaration made, by any means i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Liability in the event of an incorrectly executed payment transaction

Article L133-21

…shall, at the payer's request, make available to the payer any information in its possession which may document the payer's legal action to recover the funds.If the deposit account agreement or the p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The judgment adopting the plan and the implementation of the plan.

Article L626-21

…lan and the creditor's acceptance of deadlines, remissions or conversions into securities giving or capable of giving access to capital do not prejudge the final admission of the claim to liabilities.…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-149

…n article…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-24

No one may be naturalised unless they can prove that they are assimilated into the French community, in particular through sufficient knowledge, depending on their condition, of the French language, h…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 211-121

The aid is reimbursed from the sums calculated in accordance with articles…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVII: Prosecution, investigation and trial of offences committed by protected adults

Article D47-21

The medical expertise provided for by the purpose of Article 706-115 is to determine whether or not, at the time of the offence, the person concerned was suffering from a mental or neuropsychological…

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