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Showing 581590 of 51013 articles for Art. L 144-6 · Cass. com. 9 December 2008 n° 06-14.414

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Expertise procedure for medical accidents

Article L1142-9

Before issuing the opinion provided for in Article L. 1142-8, the Regional Commission shall commission an expert opinion under the conditions provided for in Article L. 1142-12. The Regional Commissio…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Fees for access to Nordic sites developed for non-motorised snow sports.

Article L422-9

The rules relating to the determination, by the deliberative assembly of a mixed syndicate with competence for the creation and management of a Nordic site dedicated to cross-country skiing and non-mo…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books

Article L134-9

As an exception to the provisions of the first three paragraphs of Article L. 324-17, the approved organisations mentioned in Article L. 134-3 use the sums collected for the exploitation of unavailabl…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Transactions carried out by supplementary occupational pension funds

Article L143-9

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions for the application of this chapter, in particular the technical and guarantee rules applicable to the operations referred to in Article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties

Article L1337-9

The provisions of articles…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 8: Provisions applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds belonging to an insurance group and a financial conglomerate

Article L385-9

Supplementary occupational pension funds belonging to a group within the meaning of Article L. 356-1 are subject to group supervision under the conditions laid down in Chapter VI of Title V of Book II…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Sociétés en commandite par actions.

Article L226-9

The Supervisory Board is responsible for the ongoing supervision of the company's management. To this end, it has the same powers as the statutory auditors.It submits a report to the annual ordinary g…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Operation

Article L2121-9

The mayor may convene the municipal council whenever he deems it useful.He is obliged to convene it within a maximum of thirty days when a reasoned request is made to him by the State representative i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4221-9

The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of health professionals, indiv…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Joint action and legal intervention

Article L621-9

On the occasion of an action brought before the civil courts seeking compensation for harm suffered by one or more consumers as a result of acts that do not constitute a criminal offence, the associat…

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