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Showing 291300 of 56769 articles for Art. L 144-10 · C. civ. Art. 1709 · Cass. com. 11 May 1971 · Cass. com. 23 March 1999 n° 97-15.000

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R5121-97

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé shall register the homeopathic medicinal products referred to in Article L. 5121-13 and the traditional…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ia: Territoriality

Article 258 C

I. - The place of an intra-Community acquisition of tangible movable property is deemed to be in France if the goods are in France at the time of arrival of the shipment or transport to the purchaser.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation.

Article R4113-97

The liquidator shall file with the secretariat-registry, for inclusion in the file opened in the name of the company, the resolution of the partners or the court decision appointing him. He shall send…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 97-1

The judicial police officer or, under his supervision, the judicial police agent may, for the purposes of executing the letters rogatory, carry out the operations provided for by Article 57-1.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Application to the armed forces health service

Article R6153-97

The agreements provided for in this chapter concerning student doctors, pharmacists and dental surgeons at the Armed Forces Medical Corps Schools may only be signed with the agreement of the Commandan…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope of application

Article R4451-97

…emergency situation is any worker who has been entrusted with one of the actions mentioned in Article R. 4451-96. These actions may not be entrusted to a pregnant or breastfeeding woman or to a young…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Negotiating committee

Article D7343-97

Each employees' organisation has two seats in the employees' college. It appoints its representatives from among the representatives mentioned in Article D. 7343-61. It may appoint an alternate from a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation of the company.

Article R743-97

Each partner may, at any time, inspect for himself the documents referred to in Article R. 743-96, as well as all registers and accounting documents required to be kept by the legislative or regulator…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 311-97

…to obtain, taking into account its situation or the nature of the work, either a decision in principle to grant selective production aid, or prior authorisation when an automatic account has been open…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Disputes relating to the conduct of electoral operations

Article R2122-97

The decision of the judicial court may be the subject of an appeal to the Court of Cassation lodged, investigated and judged under the conditions provided for by the Code of Civil Procedure in matters…

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