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Showing 42014210 of 7437 articles for Art. TEPA Act 21 August 2007

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article R24-4

…and, where applicable, the deeds ensuring its publicity specify that the provisional beneficiary is acting either to guarantee the rights of the Public Treasury and those of the victim(s), or to guara…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition, organisation and operation

Article L7345-4

…l Relations Authority. The tax is allocated up to the ceiling set in I of Article 46 of the Finance Act 2011-1977 of 28 December 2011 for 2012.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Financial solidarity of the principal.

Article L8254-1

When a contract is concluded, the subject of which is an obligation of a minimum amount with a view to the performance of work, the supply of a service or the performance of a commercial act, and peri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conciliation procedure.

Article R1142-19

…blishment within its jurisdiction; 2° Requests relating to disputes or difficulties arising from an act of prevention, diagnosis or care, or carried out as part of biomedical research, performed withi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Approval and authorisation

Article R532-4

…aminations to verify the professional knowledge of natural persons placed under the authority of or acting on behalf of investment services providers shall be deemed to constitute a decision of accept…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures

Article R23-112-14

…int regional inter-professional committee(s) within his territorial jurisdiction in the Recueil des actes administratifs and on his website.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures and arrangements

Article D1413-49

The Minister for Health, acting on a proposal from the Director General of the National Public Health Agency, shall draw up a list of national reference centres for a period of five years, specifying,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Practice of the profession

Article R4312-50

It is forbidden to practise nursing under a pseudonym. A nurse who uses a pseudonym for activities relating to his or her profession must declare this to the Conseil Départemental de l'Ordre. Professi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Management entrusted to a public institution in the absence of an agreement.

Article D5427-2

…airs of the establishment through its deliberations. With the exception of those which have the character of acts of day-to-day administration, these deliberations are enforceable only in the absence…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Permanence of care in health care institutions

Article R6111-46

Decisions to designate candidates are published in the Recueil des actes administratifs of the regional prefecture and on the website of the regional health agency. The decision to designate a candida…

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