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Showing 28312840 of 60498 articles for Art. Decree 2022-1294 of 5-10-2022

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Registration of members of the profession and non-practising graduates

Article D4311-101-1

Professionals who have obtained authorisation to practise part of the profession concerned appear on a separate list containing the professional title under which they are authorised to practise and t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2a: Judicial public interest agreements

Article R15-33-60-10

Where the obligation or obligations of the agreement are not fully performed, the interruption of performance of the agreement referred to in the seventeenth paragraph of Article 41-1-2 is recorded by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: "ORSAN" system

Article R3131-10-3

…in article R. 3131-10-2 is collected and recorded in the SIVIC data processing system by the staff of health establishments caring for patients, including in the context of emergency medical assistan…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Industrial property qualification

Article R421-10-2

Failing an express decision within the period mentioned in article R. 421-10-1, the application is deemed to have been accepted.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection IV: Special provisions for the register of associations

Article ANNEXE, art. 30-10

…gal announcements.The association pays the publication costs directly to the newspaper and sends proof of this to the court within one month of being sent the draft notice for publication.Within fifte…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Tax officials entrusted with certain judicial police duties

Article R15-33-29-10

Tax officials may only be authorised to carry out judicial police missions when they are assigned to one of the departments mentioned in Article R. 15-33-29-4-1. For each of these agents, a request fo…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Classification of offices

Article L133-10-1

The tourist office may be classified under conditions laid down by decree.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article R22-10-38

The additional insertion of the purchase notice in the Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires, provided for by Article R. 225-153, is applicable when the company's shares are admitted to trading o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment of wages.

Article R3423-10-1

For the application of article R. 3243-2 to Mayotte, the first sentence of the second paragraph is deleted.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Duty to comply

Article R752-44-10

…ificate is drawn up for each stage, in proportion to each completion or marketing, within the limit of the period of validity of the commercial development authorisation as set out in article R. 752-2…

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