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Showing 23812390 of 42508 articles for Art. Cass. com. 9 October 2012 · Cass. 3e civ. 11 May 2005 · Cass. 3e civ. 19 December 2012

French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions of professional competence.

Article R512-11

I-The purpose of the professional training course referred to in articles R. 512-9 and R. 512-10 is to enable trainees to acquire legal, technical, commercial and administrative skills prior to engagi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contraceptives other than medicines and condoms.

Article R5134-11

…ph of article R. 5122-2 and those of articles R. 5122-2-1, R. 5122-5, R. 5122-6, R. 5122-7, R. 5122-9 and R. 5122-13 to R. 5122-16 are applicable to advertising for contraceptive products and articles…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Periodic inspections

Article R4323-99

…accessibility contrary to the conditions of provision or use determined pursuant to article R. 4323-97. These orders specify the frequency of inspections and, where necessary, their nature and content…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 91

…ons referred to in the complaint, and without prejudice to proceedings for slanderous denunciation, may, if they do not take civil action, claim damages from the plaintiff in the forms indicated below…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

Article R3122-11

By way of derogation from article R. 3122-9, when, in duly justified circumstances, for reasons of exceptional security, technical reasons or because of the particularly sensitive nature of commercial…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3 : Conversion into a grant of part of the advances granted to finance the initial installation of digital projection equipment in cinemas

Article 916-24

In order to support the small exhibition sector, which has been particularly affected by the covid-19 epidemic and its economic and financial consequences, the part of the advances granted to operator…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Withholding

Article L335-11

…right and outside the cases provided for by European Union regulations, the customs administration may, as part of its controls, detain goods likely to infringe a copyright or related right. The hold…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Life insurance with variable capital on real estate.

Article L160-11

…the new system. This substitution is made without application of the fifth paragraph of article L. 112-3. The same applies, where applicable, to adaptations to the provisions of the contracts, in par…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-11

The joint fund helps to finance the following activities, which constitute missions of general interest for the employees' trade union organisations and the professional employers' organisations conce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Identification and lists of members of the medical professions.

Article D4113-115

…rt of the process of registration on the roll, register the information provided for in article L. 4113-1 on the basis of the diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications presented…

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