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Showing 32713280 of 59246 articles for Art. Cass. com. 9 June 2009 n° 08-10.350 · Cass. com. 22 October 1996 · Cass. 1re civ. 22 May 1991 · Cass. 1re civ. 10 July 1996 · Cass. 3e civ. 2 April 2003

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-10

…ation;- financial fixed assets;- segment information given in the notes to the financial statements.2. The procedures defined in this standard do not exempt the statutory auditor from implementing the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Specific safety study.

Article R4543-10

…e carrying out the work. To this end, it includes in particular: 1° A description of the equipment; 2° The conditions of access to the various parts of the equipment, and in particular the machinery;…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Termination of business.

Article R4731-10

…temporary cessation of activity following the formal notice procedure provided for in articles R. 4721-6 et seq. is the subject of a reasoned decision including the factual and legal elements characte…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Duties to patients

Article R4312-10

…e care in areas which exceed his knowledge, experience, skills or the means at his disposal. Nurses may not advise or propose to patients or their families, as being beneficial or without danger, a re…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Approval of traineeships

Article R6341-10

The agreements referred to in article R. 5111-1 providing for the financing of a training or adaptation programme are deemed to constitute approval of this programme by the State with regard to the re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Installation and operation

Article R5126-100

…conclusions of the competent departments regarding compliance with the provisions of articles R. 5126-97 and R. 5126-98 by the central pharmacy of the armed forces and, if necessary, shall ask him to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Organisation of reactovigilance

Article R5222-10

Any establishment mentioned in 4° of article R. 5222-3 and any blood transfusion establishment shall appoint a local reactovigilance correspondent.The local reactovigilance correspondent is a doctor o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1 The Training and Employment Committee

Article A142-10

…p of the following people: 1° The Director of the Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme, President; 2° A representative of the teaching staff of the Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme appointed by…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1 : General rules on the form of wills.

Article 969

A will may be holographic or made by public deed or in the mystic form.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Administrative detention

Article L751-9

The administrative authority may detain, for a period of forty-eight hours, a foreign national who is the subject of a request to be taken into care or taken back into care in order to prevent a non-n…

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