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Showing 591600 of 31943 articles for Art. R. 145-21

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R6153-1-21

The provisions of article R. 6153-26 relating to availability are applicable to junior doctors.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article R22-10-21

The provisions of Article R. 225-72 do not apply when the company's shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Recording data in the directory

Article R53-21-4

…mation communicated to the criminal records department in accordance with the provisions of article R. 64..

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article R812-21-1

…icle L. 812-2, may be assisted, in addition to the persons listed in the third paragraph of Article R. 811-42, one or more bailiffs or auctioneers, as the case may be; 3° The costs incurred by the ass…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: High Council for Social Dialogue.

Article R*2122-2

…of five years. The Prime Minister appoints one of the qualified persons mentioned in 3° of Article R. * 2122-1 to chair the meetings of the High Council.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 8: The national information system common to the regional joint cross-industry committees

Article R6323-21-9

…rmation system of the cross-industry joint committees enables the data referred to in II of article R. 6323-34 that it holds to be transmitted to the information system for the personal training accou…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Special provisions for overseas departments.

Article R*214-3

By way of derogation from the second paragraph of article R. 211-23, frontier insurance taken out for the use in French Guyana of a vehicle that is not normally based in France or in a State mentioned…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Bank staff.

Article R142-21-1

…France to these expenses may not be less than 2.5% of the gross payroll. The provisions of article R. 2323-35 of the Labour Code do not apply. The procedures for distributing this overall contributio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: High Council for Social Dialogue.

Article R*2122-4

…e representatives of the employee and employer trade union organisations mentioned in 1° of Article R. * 2122-1. It will hear any national cross-industry employee trade union organisation that so requ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Corporate mutual funds governed by article L. 214-165-1

Article R214-214-5

…stipulate that the fund may invest up to 10% of its assets in the assets mentioned in II of article R. 214-32-18 and in article R. 214-32-19 of this code, except in the case of a fund set up to manage…

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