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Showing 51215130 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 Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial assistance

Article R5134-70

…ked by the employee whose employment initiative contract is a fixed-term contract, in the following cases: 1° Early termination resulting from the clear and unequivocal will of the parties; 2° Early t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Labelling.

Article R5141-74

…packagings on which it is impossible to include all the particulars provided for in Article R. 5141-73 may include only the following information: 1° The name of the medicinal product ; 2° The quantit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Presumptions of ownership

Article 752

…s, bonds, founders' or beneficiaries' shares, assets or rights placed in a trust defined in article 792-0 bis, company shares and any other claims of which the deceased was the owner or received the i…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Effect on insurance contracts of the requisition of goods and services.

Article L160-7

The requisitioning of services, within the meaning of article 2 of order no. 59-63 of 6 January 1959 relating to the requisitioning of goods and services, as well as in the case of accommodation or ca…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors

Article R114-7

…the day of the first meeting following the renewal of the Board of Directors. If a member loses the capacity for which he was appointed or elected, he shall automatically resign from the Board of Dire…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Governance of the plan

Article R144-7

…of their term of office and the procedures for making provisional appointments in the event of a vacancy caused by the death, resignation or dismissal of one or more members between two members' meet…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Governance system

Article R354-7

…ioned in Article L. 354-1 and those whose interruption, once outsourced, is likely to have a significant impact on the business of the company, on its ability to manage risks effectively or to call in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Sole traders with limited liability

Article L526-7

…national register of companies with which the head of the business is required to register in this capacity; 3° For activities as a commercial agent, in the special register for commercial agents; 4°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Authorisation for creation or transfer

Article R5126-75

…he competent council is notified by any means that provides a date certain for receipt of the notification. If the national order of pharmacists has not given its opinion within three months of the da…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Managing Director and staff of the Agency

Article R4642-7

The Agency may employ contractual agents under the conditions laid down by Decree no. 2014-21 of 9 January 2014 setting out the contractual conditions applicable to agents of the National Agency for t…

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