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Showing 54515460 of 41666 articles for Art. Décret 55-22 du 4 janvier 1955

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation procedure

Article R513-11-4

…or in Article L. 513-11-1 shall be sent to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé by the legal entity applying for this authorisation and by an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocations of free shares.

Article L225-197-4

…5-197-1 to L. 225-197-3. This report also gives an account of:the number and value of shares which, during the year and by virtue of the offices and functions held in the company, have been allocated…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation and resources

Article R1233-26-4

The committee meets at least twice a year, convened by its chairman, on his or her own initiative or, within a maximum of two months, at the written request of the full representatives of this committ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and activities

Article L511-4-1

The credit institutions and finance companies mentioned in this chapter shall indicate in their annual report the amount and characteristics of the loans they finance or distribute as defined in III o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Commission du contentieux du stationnement payant (Pay parking disputes commission)

Article L2333-87-4

Decisions of the Commission du contentieux du stationnement payant are handed down by the chairman of the commission or by a magistrate appointed by him, who rules alone. The chairman of the commissio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Declaration of a plot as abandoned

Article L2243-4

…eration of the town council.At the request of the mayor, or if the mayor does not initiate the procedure referred to in the second paragraph within six months of the declaration of manifest abandonmen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for taking up the activity of financial investment adviser

Article L541-4

…cial investment adviser must become a member of an association responsible for monitoring the individual professional activities of its members, representing them collectively and defending their righ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions adapting Book VII.

Article L947-4

…gistered in France whose home port is located in the constituency, maritime pilots exercising their duties in a port located in the constituency, civil aeronautics pilots domiciled in the constituency…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L613-21-4

…ated basis, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall take a decision, on an individual or sub-consolidated basis within the meaning of 49 of paragraph 1 of Article 4 of Regulation (E…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4131-4-1

Persons authorised to practise medicine temporarily in application of article L. 4131-4 may apply for authorisation to practise in a specialty at the earliest at the end of the first year of practice…

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