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Showing 32213230 of 5611 articles for Art. Directive 86/653/EEC – 18 Dec. 1986

French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article R732-8

…entered on the list provided for in Article L. 732-3, the procedure provided for in articles R. 742-18 to R. 742-23. With a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the public service of justice, th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article D49-16

…lawyer may, however, ask to be granted time to prepare his defence. The provisions of articles 712-18 or 712-19 allowing the suspension of the measure or the provisional incarceration of the sentence…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Organisation

Article R4422-36

…chaeological sites, belonging to the State, the list of which is annexed to decree no. 2003-1111 of 18 November 2003, taken in application of article 9 of law no. 2002-92 of 22 January 2002 relating t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial and statistical monitoring

Article R5134-22

…onsible for these services to carry out the operations provided for in 4° and 5° of article R. 5134-18, the latter are recipients of the data from the processing, with the exception of the registratio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 C

…ment companies are defined as joint stock companies listed on a regulated market in accordance with Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in fi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22

…t out in this article.II. - A master UCITS is a French or foreign UCITS approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 which meets the f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exchange of information

Article L561-27

The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 shall receive, at the initiative of State administrations, local and regional authorities, public establishments, the bodies referred to inArticle L. 13…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Budgetary and accounting provisions

Article D4425-41

The revenues of the Corsican local authority, regional, departmental, interregional and interdepartmental public establishments and any public body resulting from an agreement between the Corsican loc…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable to the départements of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle

Article R534-1

…e décret du 18 novembre 1924 relatif à la tenue du livre foncier da…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Victims' rights

Article D1-11-2

…on appearing in certain places as provided for by article 138 of this Code or by 9°, 11°, 12°, 13°, 18° and 18° bis of article 132-45 of the Penal Code; 2° If the effectiveness of this prohibition mus…

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