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Showing 27712780 of 36126 articles for Art. Cass. com. 27 mai 1997 n° 95-15690

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-14

…ere the receivership proceedings have been opened pursuant to the third paragraph of Article L. 626-27 and the debtor has transferred assets or rights into a fiduciary estate prior to the opening of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Care of prisoners

Article R6111-39

…emises suitable for admitting prisoners:a) By the health establishment mentioned in article R. 6111-27 when this hospitalisation is of an emergency nature or of very short duration ;b) By a health est…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter X: Digital asset service providers

Article D54-10-7

…arried out by a qualified trust service provider under the conditions set out in Decree 2015-350 of 27 March 2015 relating to the qualification of security products and trust service providers for the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Investment holding companies

Article L517-4-3

…investment holding company is a financial institution the subsidiaries of which are exclusively or mainly investment firms or financial institutions, at least one of which is an investment firm which…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Collective management bodies

Article R321-1

…of Article R. 321-15 and article R. 321-16, as well as the provisions of articles R. 321-26, R. 321-27, R. 321-30 to R. 321-34, R. 321-36 to R. 321-42, R. 321-44, R. 321-46 and R. 321-47.Collective ma…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and operation

Article L5843-3

…Book VII of Part Five of the present Code mentioned in Article 55-1 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004 on the autonomous status of French Polynesia are applicable to French Polynesia sub…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Access to payment accounts

Article D133-8

The audit report provided for in Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2018/389 of 27 November 2017 shall be communicated annually to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolutio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: "My Training Activity" information system

Article R6351-21

…in Articles 15 and 16 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-5

Assistance from the compensation fund is granted:1° When the interruption in the filming of a cinematographic or audiovisual work is the direct result of one of the following events:a) One or more per…

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

Article L5219-2

…ablishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status on the date of promulgation of loi n° 2015-991 du 7 août 2015 portant nouvelle organisation territoriale de la République may not belon…

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