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Showing 621630 of 55685 articles for Art. Cass. soc. 5 November 1987 · Cass. soc. 2 April 1998 · Cass. soc. 2 July 1981 · Cass. soc. 5 November 2009 · Cass. soc. 29 June 2017 · Cass. soc. 28 September 2010 · Cass. soc. 24 October 1989 · CA Paris 16 December 2009

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-29

The convicted person may appeal against the decision authorising the execution of the confiscation in France. The person who holds the property that is the subject of the confiscation order or any oth…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-29

In the event of suspension of the effects of a cheque-writing ban pursuant to Article L. 643-12 of the French Commercial Code, the drawee shall send the Banque de France, no later than the second busi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 5: Operation of the adversarial expert appraisal.

Article R5127-24

…the time limit set by the examining magistrate, the sample is no longer taken into account. In this case, the two experts are assigned to examine a single sample. When, in the course of or as a result…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Approval of investments

Article 211-50

Even when it is not required, investment approval may be granted to any production company that requests it for the production of feature films that meet the conditions set out in section 1 of this ch…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Invoices

Article 289-0

I. - The invoicing rules provided for in Article 289 apply to transactions deemed to be located in France pursuant to Articles 258 to 259 D, excluding those carried out by a taxable person who has est…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-29

The proceedings are immediately referred to the Investigating Chamber. The wanted person shall appear before it within five working days from the date of his presentation to the public prosecutor.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Terms of engagement

Article A823-29

…nts and the information relating to the corporate governance report sent to the members of the body called upon to approve the accounts, approved by the Minister of Justice, is shown below: NEP-9510.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article A712-29

…ice, a secondary service or a sub-service. Within each of these services, the principle of asymmetrical fungibility of appropriations may be applied, where appropriate. However, any transfer of approp…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 6: Financial guarantee.

Article R211-28

…State party to the agreement establishing the European Economic Area, or a branch in France. In all cases, this financial guarantee must be immediately available to ensure the repatriation of passenge…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-28

The supplementary protection certificate is invalid:-if the patent to which it relates is invalid;-if the patent to which it relates is invalid for all those parts of it corresponding to the marketing…

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