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Showing 12311240 of 1715 articles for Art. Vertical Guidelines – point 145

French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Recovery.

Article 345 bis

…proposal mentioned in articles 67 B and 67 D, the administration has formally taken a position on a point that it examined during the audit.A Conseil d'Etat decree specifies the terms and conditions f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Duty to comply

Article R752-44

…electric or hybrid vehicles, car-pooling, car-sharing, and non-impervious spaces; 2° For permanent points for the collection by customers of retail purchases ordered electronically, organised for acc…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Essential health and safety requirements.

Article R5211-23-2

…as the characteristics of the medical device and its intended use. These criteria are specified in point 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 722/2012 of 8 August 2012 on specific requirements as regar…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-16

…the date which, for each of the cases listed in the first paragraph, shall be taken as the starting point for the cancellation period.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Algorithmic trading activities applicable to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-10-5

…fy the Autorité des marchés financiers as well as the competent authority designated as the contact point, within the meaning of Article 79(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Own funds

Article R351-22

…sing the extent to which own-fund items have the characteristics set out in (a) and (b), at a given point in time and for the future, due consideration must be given to the duration of the item, in pa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Receivership.

Article L631-8

…eferred to in the first and second paragraphs is that of the safeguard proceedings and the starting point of the period referred to in the fourth paragraph is the day of the judgment converting the sa…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: GENERAL CONTRACT CONDITIONS

Article R211-5

…process the consumer's personal data, for processing carried out under the conditions mentioned in points a and f of paragraph 1 of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament an…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Consumer credit

Article R312-35

…here the terms of payment of unpaid instalments have been restructured or rescheduled, the starting point for the foreclosure period is the first unpaid incident occurring after the first restructurin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Reimbursement of unemployment benefit

Article R1235-9

…back to the court that gave the judgment for the purpose of possibly revoking the judgment on this point. Under no circumstances may the retraction call into question the res judicata between the emp…

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