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Showing 13011310 of 51113 articles for Art. Cass. com. 3 October 2006 · Cass. com. 23 October 2012 n° 11-24.033 · Cass. com. 15 September 2015 n° 14-17.964 · CA Versailles 6 June 1997

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation

Article D1432-23

…vision of the previous paragraph does not apply to the members mentioned in 1° of I of article D. 1432-15. No person may hold more than one proxy.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1572

…onging to the spouse on the day the matrimonial property regime is dissolved, including, where applicable, that which he or she would have disposed of mortis causa and without excluding any sums of wh…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multi-annual protocol referred to in I of Article L. 6147-11

Article R6147-141

…d forces health service, who may be represented; 2° Two representatives of the Minister for Health; 3° One representative of the Minister for Social Security; 4° One representative of the Minister for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multi-annual protocol referred to in I of Article L. 6147-11

Article R6147-140

I.-The protocol referred to in I of article L. 6147-11 is implemented for a period of five years and tacitly renewed for the same period, unless an amendment is concluded no later than six months befo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The special register of individual entrepreneurs with limited liability.

Article R526-23

When mention is made in the special register provided for in Article R. 526-15, the Registrar shall automatically and without delay deregister the registered person and at the same time send a file to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article R2312-23

…eds a threshold set by order of the ministers responsible for labour, the economy, the budget and local authorities. This provision applies under the same conditions to grants, loans and repayable adv…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-6-3

…es, for ten completed years, may be sold in accordance with the procedure set out in Article L. 228-6. This sale takes place at the end of a period set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, starting from t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific pollution rooms

Article R4222-15

Specific requirements, adopted pursuant to 3° of Article L. 4111-6, prohibit or restrict, where applicable, the use of recycling for certain categories of substances or categories of premises.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-23

…anent employees in the company and its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is located in France, or at least five thousand permanent employees in the company and its direct or indi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Allocation of free shares to company employees

Article 1127

No tax shall be levied on free allocations of shares made pursuant to: 1° (Repealed); 2° (Repealed); 3° Articles L. 322-13 and L. 322-22 of the Insurance Code relating to national insurance companies;…

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