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Showing 25212530 of 20081 articles for Art. Cass. crim. 30 January 2019

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application.

Article L3261-1

…ities and their public establishments, establishments mentioned inarticle 2 of law no. 86-33 of 9th January 1986 on statutory provisions relating to the hospital civil service and public interest grou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Financial provisions

Article L5722-4

…nces for the first time, but they only apply on a mandatory basis to fixed assets acquired from 1st January 2010.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Automated national register of refusals to take blood samples

Article R1232-13

…tive information contained in the register, in accordance with the provisions of Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties. In addition, it provides…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Expenditure by communes and groups of communes for municipal secondary and special education establishments (R).

Article D2321-8

…truction and operation of secondary and special education establishments that were municipal on 1st January 1986, the date of transfer of responsibility, as well as their sports teaching annexes is, i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R621-48

…f contractual agents governed by public law are subject to the provisions of Decree no. 86-83 of 17 January 1986 relating to the general provisions applicable to contractual agents of the State, with…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°g: Priority development zones

Article 1383 J

…and for the same duration as the latter.III.The exemptions provided for in I and II apply from 1st January of the year following the year in which the property is attached to a qualifying establishme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1227-1

…s or attempts to disclose a manufacturing secret is liable to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros.The court may also impose, as an additional penalty and for a maximum period of five ye…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-25

…diagnostic medical devices that are the subject of the performance study is punishable by a fine of 30,000 euros.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article L1454-2

…persons mentioned in I and II of article L. 1451-1 and in article L. 1452-3 are liable to a fine of 30,000 euros if they knowingly omit, under the conditions laid down by the same article, to draw up…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6 : Provisions common to certain methods of acquiring French nationality

Article 21-27

No one may acquire French nationality or be reinstated in this nationality if they have been convicted of crimes or offences constituting an attack on the fundamental interests of the Nation or an act…

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