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Showing 29212930 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
Section 3: General provisions relating to elections to the disciplinary boards of New Caledonia and French Polynesia

Article D4443-16

…office expires at the end of three or six years respectively. A member, whether full or alternate, called upon to replace a full member who is absent and unrepresented without valid reason for three…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
OA: Non-alcoholic drinks

Article 1613 ter

…ther free of charge or for consideration, in France, outside the collectivities governed by Article 74 of the Constitution, New Caledonia, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and Clipperton Island…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Electronic money

Article R752-16

Article R. 315-1 is applicable in New Caledonia as amended by Decree no. 2018-229 of 30 March 2018.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640 D

…were not members of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax status on 1 January 2011 and that join a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with additional tax st…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to all financing bodies

Article L214-168

…the one hand, to be exposed to the risks, including insurance risks, referred to in article L. 214-175-1 and, on the other hand, to finance or hedge them in full, under the conditions provided for in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AA

When capitalisation contracts or investments of the same nature, in particular life insurance contracts, are taken out with organisations mentioned in I of article 1649 ter who are established outside…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial guarantee.

Article R512-16

I. - The financial guarantee is implemented on the sole grounds that the guaranteed intermediary is in default, without the guarantor being able to invoke the benefit of discussion against the credito…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R1110-16

Each year, the national councils of the professional associations, in the case of health professionals against whom complaints have been lodged, and the Director of the Union nationale des caisses d'a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Powers (R).

Article R2511-16

When, in the event of danger or disaster, the mayor of the municipality is required to rehouse dwellings referred to in the first paragraph of article R. 2511-4, these dwellings are not taken into acc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions specific to certain institutions and organisations.

Article L6147-16

I. - The army hospitals located within the remit of the Ile-de-France regional health agency and the Institution nationale des invalides (National Invalids Institution) cooperate on the activities men…

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