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Showing 13311340 of 35954 articles for Art. Cass. com. 26 May 2009

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Declaration and certification of establishments.

Article R5131-2

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, for the purposes of exporting cosmetic products to States which are neither members of the European Union nor parties to th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prohibition of certain customer-seeking procedures and prohibition of certain agreements or arrangements.

Article R4235-29

…ment of copyright or inventor's rights are authorised. Subject to the provisions of article R. 4235-26, pharmacists may receive royalties for their contribution to the invention, study or development…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Applications from trade unions and associations

Article R7343-27

Decisions relating to the validation of one or more candidacies may be contested, on pain of inadmissibility, by application to the judicial court within seven days of the publication referred to in a…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-19

…taken on the application.Where the accelerated procedure provided for in Articles L. 531-24, L. 531-26 or L. 531-27 is applied, this communication may be made when the decision is notified.>

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Budgetary and accounting arrangements for the High Council

Article R821-14-16

Revenue and expenditure accounts may be set up at the High Council by a decision of its Chairman with the approval of the accounting officer under the conditions laid down in the decree no. 2019-798 o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Livret A passbook savings accounts

Article L221-3

…206. 5 of the General Tax Code, low-income housing associations and co-owners' associations. Minors may open Livret A accounts without the involvement of their legal representative. They may withdraw…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
h: Cash subscriptions to the capital of approved small-scale fishing finance companies

Article 163 duovicies

…ash subscriptions to the capital of companies mentioned in article 238 bis HO made before 1 January 2009 is deductible from overall net income; this deduction may not exceed 25% of this income, up to…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R623-51

…and on presentation of the plant variety certificate, or in the case provided for in Article L. 623-26, a certified copy of the application for a plant variety certificate. In the latter case, the app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Medical biology

Article L6433-1

…e applicable to Wallis and Futuna in the wording resulting respectively from Law no. 2023-379 of 19 May 2023 on improving access to care by trusting healthcare professionals and Law no. 2016-41 of 26…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Medical and medical-psychological examinations.

Article D24

…in principle, chosen from the lists of experts drawn up pursuant to Article 157 and the articles R. 26 to R. 40 of the code of criminal procedure. The examining magistrate may also, by reasoned decisi…

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