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Showing 46514660 of 20900 articles for Art. Cass. soc. – 15 July 1999 – no. 97-21146

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-68

…al persons governed by private law likely to be the subject of the requests mentioned in Article R. 15-33-67 are: 1° Electronic communications operators as defined in Article L. 34-1 of the French Pos…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-25

…625-3, R. 625-7, R. 625-9, R. 635-1, R. 635-3 à R. 635-5, R. 645-1, R. 645-2 and R. 645-5 à R. 645-15 of the Criminal Code; 2° Victims of these offences; 3° Persons who are the subject of an investig…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Detection of business difficulties by the president of the court

Article R611-14

…produces the provisions of the second paragraph of II of article L. 611-2 as well as article R. 611-15 and the first paragraph of article R. 611-16. If the letter is returned with a note stating that…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article D49-82

…prison sentence pursuant to Articles 132-25 and 132-26 of the Penal Code or Articles 723-7 and 723-15 of this Code, subject to the provisions of this Title.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Special housing allowance for primary school teachers.

Article D2573-51

…Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale" are deleted; 2° The words: "Articles R. 2334-15 to R. 2334-17" are replaced by the words: "Article R. 2334-17". IV. - For the application of arti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-5

…application for approval, accompanied by the information and documents listed in Annex I to Decree No. 2016-1139 of 22 August 2016, shall be sent by the head of the laboratory to the public establish…

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In force

Article Annexe II

…lative to the information that must appear in the annual report provided for in article R. 2333-120-15 1° Name of the municipality, public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation or mixed syndic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4-3

…ification of data as well as their right to limit processing, provided for respectively in Articles 15, 16 and 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, with the data controller mentioned in th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Referral to and decision by the court.

Article R621-8

…f the insolvency proceedings within the meaning of Article 3(1), (2) or (4) of Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings, the court with jurisdiction to hear the appeal agai…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Adaptation provisions

Article R2651-3

…the references to Article L. 1311-4 of the Public Health Code, Articles L. 184-1, L. 511-11, L. 511-15, L. 511-16 and L. 511-19 to L. 511-21 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitation and to 1°…

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