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Showing 37213730 of 60498 articles for Art. Decree 2022-1294 of 5-10-2022

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Terms and conditions

Article D6154-10-3

The rate of the fee referred to in Article L. 6154-3 is set as follows: 1° Consultations: 16% for university hospital centres, 15% for hospital centres ; 2° Procedures other than imaging, radiotherapy…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Terms and conditions

Article D6154-10-1

…icle L. 6154-3, payable to the establishment by self-employed practitioners, is set as a percentage of the fees they receive for this activity. However, fees received for examinations for which the fe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Terms and conditions

Article D6154-10-2

The summary statement referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 6154-3 gives details of the procedures performed as part of the self-employed activity, in code and value.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Information for beneficiaries

Article R2191-59

The beneficiaries of pledges or assignments of receivables may not intervene in any way in the performance of the contract.They may only require from the purchaser or the assigning accounting officer…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prevention of conflicts of interest

Article R519-50

The association adopts written procedures for preventing and managing conflicts of interest. It shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and its members of any links of any ki…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 559

…rcourse, whether state-owned or not, removes by a sudden force a considerable and recognisable part of a riparian field, and carries it to a lower field or to the opposite bank, the owner of the part…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 555

…ons and works have been made by a third party and with materials belonging to the latter, the owner of the land has the right, subject to the provisions of paragraph 4, either to retain ownership of t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 563

…watercourse forms a new course by abandoning its old bed, the riparian owners may acquire ownership of this old bed, each in his or her own right, up to a line assumed to be drawn through the middle o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 558

Alluvion does not take place in respect of lakes and ponds, the owner of which always retains the land that the water covers when it is at the level of the discharge of the pond, even if the volume of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 554

The owner of the land who has made constructions, plantations and works with materials that did not belong to him must pay the estimated value at the date of payment; he may also be ordered to pay dam…

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