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Showing 39813990 of 51013 articles for Art. L 144-6 · Cass. com. 9 December 2008 n° 06-14.414

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative authorisation.

Article R5142-9

The prior authorisation referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 5142-2 is required for the following substantial changes:-carrying out a new pharmaceutical activity within the meaning of art…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Standard formula

Article R352-9

The adjustment to take account of the loss-absorbing capacity of prudential technical provisions within the meaning of Article L. 351-2 and deferred taxes, referred to in Article R. 352-4, reflects th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Nominations.

Article R713-9

I.-Applications shall be declared in writing to the prefecture of the département in which the headquarters of the territorial chamber of commerce and industry is located.The département prefect shall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Publicity and protection of the rights of third parties.

Article R229-9

The offer to acquire the investment certificates, provided for in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 229-2, is the subject of a notice inserted in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Composition of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee and procedures for electing and appointing its members

Article R1432-96

When, for the same election, several trade union organisations affiliated to the same union of trade unions have filed competing candidacies in the first college, the Director General of the Agency wi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Individual dosimetric monitoring

Article R4451-65

I.-Individual dosimetric monitoring in relation to external exposure or exposure to radon is carried out using appropriate delayed-reading dosimeters. Where external exposure is due to cosmic radiatio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Individual dosimetric monitoring

Article R4451-64

I.-The employer shall implement appropriate individual dosimetric monitoring when the worker is classified within the meaning of Article R. 4451-57 or when the effective dose assessed in application o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: Unit-linked life assurance or capitalisation contracts.

Article R131-9

…ides to restrict transactions on the contract under the conditions provided for in 2° of II of Article L. 131-4, it executes the transaction requests, to the maximum of the redemption possibilities of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Employers' College

Article R1441-9

I.-For the industry, trade and commercial services, agriculture and miscellaneous activities sections, the following are taken into account per section, according to the distribution table defined in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: National Commission for Decentralised Cooperation (R)

Article R1115-9

I.-The representatives of local and regional authorities are appointed for a renewable term of three years by order of the Prime Minister. They may not serve beyond their elected term of office. They…

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