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Showing 23612370 of 19519 articles for Art. Cass. soc. 27 January 2016

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The local authority's budget and accounts

Article D6361-7

The territorial council chooses to vote on the local authority's budget by nature or, from 1 January 2009, by function.If the budget is voted on by nature, it also includes a cross-referenced presenta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial assistance

Article R5132-10-13

…or the Budget revalorises this aid each year in line with changes in the minimum growth wage from 1 January 2015.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial assistance

Article R5132-24

…or the Budget revalorises this aid each year in line with changes in the minimum growth wage from 1 January 2015.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-3

…18-1, 222-23 à 222-33-1, 223-1 à 223-10, 223-13, 224-1 à 224-5, 225-7 à 225-9, 225-12-1 à 225-12-4,227-1, 227-2, 227-15 to 227-27-1 of the Criminal Code, where the public prosecution has been initiate…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Grouped offers

Article L224-42-2

…mmunications service based on publicly available numbering, 1° and 2° of I and II of Article L. 224-27, articles L. 224-28, L. 224-29, L. 224-33, L. 224-34, L. 224-39, L. 224-40, L. 224-42 and the I o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Economic interest groupings under French law.

Article L251-12

…utory auditors of public limited companies, as well as the sanctions provided for by Article L. 242-27 are applicable to the commissaires (statutory auditors) of economic interest groupings, subject t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Hearing of the claimant

Article R249-35

…for a hearing if he or she considers that, at the end of the period set pursuant to article R. 249-27, the prison administration has put an end to the undignified conditions of detention in which he…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-25

…e application for authorisation to be subject to the rules set out in Articles R. 356-26 and R. 356-27. 356-24, the application for authorisation to be subject to the rules set out in Articles R. 356-…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Financial contributions from municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and the département to the budget of the departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article L1424-35

…taken into account when calculating the overall amount of the contribution that it pays.Before 1st January of the year in question, the provisional amount of the contributions mentioned in the fourth…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Slaughter health fees

Article 302 bis O

…shment and the self-checking and traceability measures it implements, within the meaning of Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on…

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