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Showing 28712880 of 44700 articles for Art. Cass. com. 30 June 1998 · Cass. com. 15 June 2010 · Cass. com. 15 May 1973 · Cass. com. 16 January 1996 · CA Versailles 7 June 2007

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

Article R6153-16

…o. 86-442 of 14 March 1986 relating to the appointment of approved doctors, the organisation of medical committees and reform boards, the physical fitness requirements for admission to public employme…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to all financing bodies

Article L214-169

I. - The fund may have sub-funds if the company's articles of association or the fund rules so provide. Each sub-fund gives rise to the issue of units or shares and, where applicable, debt securities.…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties for non-compliance with the obligation to declare and provide information

Article L7122-16

…arts entrepreneur without holding a valid activity declaration receipt as referred to in article L. 7122-3, or that it has not fulfilled the obligations set out in the third paragraph of I of article…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
3a: Withholding tax on salaries, remuneration, pensions, annuities, income and gains paid to persons not resident in France for tax purposes

Article 1671 A

…gether with a declaration in accordance with the model set by the administration, no later than the 15th of the month following the calendar quarter during which the payment was made... The provisions…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-10

I.-An examination of a person's constitutional genetic characteristics may only be undertaken for medical or scientific research purposes. It is subject to the express consent of the person, obtained…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-16

…armacy assistants in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may perform professional acts in France on a temporary and occasional basis. Where the practice or t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1693 quater

…ticle 299 other than those subject to the simplified actual taxation scheme provided for in article 302 septies A or allowed to file their returns by calendar quarter in accordance with the last parag…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-16

…article R. 1211-14 are supplemented, depending on the nature of the samples envisaged, by other medical biology analyses designed to diagnose transmissible infectious diseases, the results of which, e…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 8: Professional reorganisation procedure

Article A743-16

…t of a professional recovery procedure appearing in number 145 of the table mentioned in article A. 743-8 gives rise to the collection of:1° A principal emolument of €334.39;2° Two accessory emolument…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition and operation

Article R5112-16

…3° Five representatives of representative employers' organisations.The departmental or, where applicable, regional director of public finance or his representative may be heard by the specialised pan…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
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