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Showing 881890 of 45512 articles for Art. Rép. Rabault: AN 25-2-2020 n° 24560

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Information to be provided to the public by groups.

Article L356-25-1

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this section.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Social protection

Article L2123-25-1

When an elected official who receives an official allowance and who has not interrupted any professional activity cannot effectively carry out his duties in the event of illness, maternity, paternity…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-25

The Public Prosecutor shall inform the judicial authority of the issuing State of any appeal lodged and of the grounds raised, so that that authority may submit its observations, where appropriate by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article 706-25-19

…sions of the Paris Sentence Enforcement Court provided for in this section may be appealed in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 712-1.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-13

No reconciliation or interconnection, within the meaning of Article 33 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties, may be carried out between the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-14

…of State, issued after obtaining the opinion of the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties. This decree shall specify the conditions under which the file shall keep a reco…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Safety requirements for football, handball, field and indoor hockey goal cages and basketball goals

Article R322-25-1

Operators or managers are required to notify the Prefect of the département without delay of any serious accident caused by any of the equipment mentioned in this section. A serious accident is a fata…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-25-1

An employee may, at his request and in agreement with his employer, give up anonymously and without consideration all or part of his untaken rest days, whether or not they have been allocated to a tim…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-25-1

…el et de résolution, in its capacity as group supervisor, is informed by a supervisory authority of another Member State of a request to subject a subsidiary having its registered office in that Membe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-25-1

…of claim interrupts the statute of limitations until the proceedings are closed; it dispenses with any formal notice and is equivalent to an act of prosecution.

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