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Showing 28712880 of 6003 articles for Art. Cons. const. – 13 Jan. 2011 – no. 2010-85 QPC

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-46-1

…f a group on a consolidated basis, the request for authorisation provided for in III of Article L. 613-46 shall be sent to the supervisory board by the parent institution in the EU party to the agreem…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Provisions relating to associated communes resulting from a merger with more than 100,000 inhabitants and delegated communes

Article R2113-16

In the associated communes mentioned in article L. 2113-17 as it stood prior to the loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales et dans les communes déléguées menti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Treatment and cleaning products and processes

Article R1321-51

…ses for treating water intended for human consumption that comply with the provisions of article R. 1321-50 . For spring water, the provisions applicable are those of article R. 1321-85.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions relating to the accessibility of works to people with sensory disabilities

Article 211-18

…irements of the Charter on the quality of subtitling for the deaf or hard of hearing of 12 December 2011 and those of the Audio Description Charter of 10 December 2008.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Advertising.

Article R*322-86

Within the same period of one month, an extract from the documents mentioned in article R. 322-85 is published in one of the newspapers authorised to publish legal notices in the département where the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article D49-89

Failure to comply with the time limits set out in articles D. 49-84 and D. 49-85 does not constitute grounds for invalidating summonses or the formalities for installing the electronic surveillance de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Materials vigilance.

Article L5212-2

…the importer and the distributor, are defined by this Regulation, in particular in its Articles 10, 13, 14, 87, 88 and 89. In addition, any healthcare professional or professional user of the device w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of Commercial Court Judges.

Article L723-2

The persons mentioned in article L. 723-1 may form part of the electoral college only on condition :

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-87

I. - For the purposes of determining the 20% limit referred to in article R. 214-85 and the 20% ratio referred to in article R. 214-86, the denominator shall include :1° The assets referred to in 1° o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis ZG

…and operation of horse racing, and for the online horse betting mentioned in the article 11 of Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 relating to the opening up to competition and the regulation of the onli…

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