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Showing 45214530 of 7437 articles for Art. TEPA Act 21 August 2007

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 1354

The presumption which the law attaches to certain acts or facts by holding them to be certain exempts the person in whose favour it exists from proving it. It is said to be simple, when the law reserv…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 694-24

The fact that the investigative measure carried out in the executing State has been successfully challenged before the authorities of that State and in accordance with the law of that State does not i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the parties

Article 696-129

…o the content of the proceedings, to make a request to the Deputy European Public Prosecutor for an act to be carried out, to submit an application for annulment or to lodge an appeal with the Investi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of elections.

Article L2314-8

…ng the request.Where the employer has initiated the electoral process and a statement of failure to act has been drawn up, the request may not be made until six months after the statement has been dra…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Special Negotiating Body.

Article L2342-4

…No employee may be penalised or dismissed for exercising this right of initiative. Any decision or act to the contrary is automatically null and void.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions common to the various councils.

Article L4233-1

…tional des pharmaciens have legal personality. They are represented by their president in all civil acts.They authorise their president to take legal action. They may, before all courts, exercise all…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Speech therapists.

Article L4341-5

…to be issued on or after that date, are authorised to carry out, outside the presence of a doctor, acts of re-education for persons with pathological difficulties in acquiring the mechanisms needed t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Medical auxiliaries.

Article L4423-3

…s and Futuna Islands, the words "and in the services mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 2112-1 and in article L. 2311-4 " are deleted. II. - For the application of article L. 4311-12 in Wa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Protests

Article L511-61

…Ministers may, for all or part of the territory, extend the periods within which protests and other acts intended to preserve recourse must be made for all negotiable securities. In the same circumsta…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L621-8

…nformed of the progress of the proceedings. The latter may at any time request communication of all acts or documents relating to the proceedings. The Public Prosecutor's Office shall communicate to t…

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