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Showing 13511360 of 52621 articles for Art. L 145-17 · Cass. 3e civ. 22 February 1968 · CA Paris 13 February 2008 · Cass. 3e civ. 24 June 1998 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 March 1969

French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exchange and dissemination of information

Article L512-22-1

The dispositions de l'article 11 du code de procédure pénale ou celles relatives au secret professionnel ne font pas obstacle à la notification d'informations relatives à un contenu illicite aux perso…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exchange and dissemination of information

Article L512-22-2

For the application of the third paragraph of the article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the public prosecutor may, for the same purposes and under the same conditions, make public, through the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article L3121-22-1

At the request of one fifth of its members, the departmental council deliberates on the creation of an information and assessment mission, tasked with gathering information on an issue of departmental…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Apprenticeship contract preparing for the vocational baccalaureate

Article L6222-22-1

An apprentice preparing for a vocational baccalaureate may, at his own request or that of his employer, at the end of the first year of the contract, continue his training with a view to obtaining a v…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L132-13

The publisher is obliged to render an account. The author may, in the absence of special terms provided for in the contract, require at least once a year the production by the publisher of a statement…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Sale and provision of services without prior order

Article L121-13

The provisions of article L. 121-12 do not preclude the charging of interest, commissions or fees in respect of overdraft facilities or bank overdrafts provided for in the account agreement instituted…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IIIa: Dental assistants

Article L4393-13

Dental assistants may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where he obtained it. Where the evidence…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Collection of information and documents

Article L512-13

…ised officers may note the identity of the person they are checking.If the person refuses or is unable to prove his identity, they shall immediately report this to any territorially competent judicial…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Remuneration for placement services.

Article L7121-13

The sums that artistic agents may receive as remuneration for their services, in particular placement, are calculated as a percentage of the artist's total remuneration. A decree sets the nature of th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Closure of the judicial liquidation.

Article R643-24

The court shall rule on the resumption of the judicial liquidation proceedings provided for in Article L. 643-13 after having heard or duly summoned the debtor. The decision to resume proceedings is s…

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