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Showing 48314840 of 21140 articles for Art. Cass. com. 27 April 1993 · Cass. civ. 21 July 1937

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TRANSFER OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FROM THE DEPARTMENTS AND REGIONS TO THE TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES OF GUYANA AND MARTINIQUE

Article L7331-3

…territorial authorities of French Guiana and Martinique constituted pursuant to loi n° 2011-884 du 27 juillet 2011 relative aux collectivités territoriales de Guyane et de Martinique entails their su…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Information for bankers, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions

Article R721-4

…signed to the Banque de France by Article R. 131-42, under the conditions specified in Articles R. 721-8 and R. 721-9.The Institut d'émission des départements d'outre-mer, the Institut d'émission d'ou…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific procedures applicable to occupational health professionals, occupational health and prevention services and occupational health services in agriculture, providing enhanced individual monitoring of a worker exposed to ionising radiation

Article R4451-86

…onal health inspector, may decide to derogate from the provisions of articles D. 4622-25 to D. 4622-27 when this is justified by the geographical distribution of workers benefiting from the individual…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Economic redundancies in the context of safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation.

Article L1233-58

I.-In the event of receivership or compulsory liquidation, the employer, administrator or liquidator, as the case may be, who envisages redundancies, implements a redundancy plan under the conditions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body with a view to their transfer for scientific use

Article R1243-60

…om whom the biological elements are derived and, depending on the cases provided for in Article L. 1211-2, the procedures for obtaining consent or the procedures for verifying the absence of oppositio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commencement of employment, management, remuneration and benefits

Article R6153-26

An intern may be placed on leave of absence by the Director General of the university hospital centre to which he is attached in one of the following cases: 1° Accident or serious illness of the inter…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Combating mirror sites

Article L331-29

…ice to access, including in an open standard within the meaning of Article 4 of Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for confidence in the digital economy, a work or object protected by a technological me…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Right to title

Article L611-7

…itional remuneration shall be submitted to the conciliation commission instituted by article L. 615-21 or to the judicial court. 2. All other inventions belong to the employee. However, where an inven…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Right to title

Article L611-7-1

…paid to the inventor shall be submitted to the conciliation commission instituted by article L. 615-21 or to the law court; 2° All other inventions made belong to this inventor. However, for the durat…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°-0 bis: Priority urban policy districts

Article 1383 C ter

…ies located in the priority urban policy neighbourhoods defined in article 5 of Law no. 2014-173 of 21 February 2014 programming for the city and urban cohesion are exempt from property tax on built p…

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