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Showing 38213830 of 28884 articles for Art. ier AN 25-4-2006 n° 46416

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1a: Additional dispensing of oral contraceptives by pharmacists

Article R5134-4-1

…the list referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 5125-23-1; 2° The prescription is less than one year old. The additional dispensing period carried out by the pharmacist either on renewal of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the implementation of a resolution measure

Article L613-50-4

…the essential obligations of the contract continue to be met, in particular the obligations to pay and deliver financial instruments and the guarantee obligations, the implementation of a measure tak…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Enforcement of criminal sentences

Article D48-5-4

A commission for the execution and enforcement of sentences is set up within each judicial court with the aim of: 1° exchanging information between all the players concerned on the conditions for impl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-4

Each member of the economic interest grouping or company is the holder of shares that cannot be dissociated from the use of a pitch determined by the constitutive contract or the Articles of Associati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-4

…e provisions of article 3 bis of law no. 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 on the status of cooperation, any retail trader duly established on the territory of a foreign State may be a member of traders' c…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article L123-47

Natural persons and legal entities whose activity consists of the manufacture of dishes for consumption on the premises may apply at the time of their registration to be registered as a business in th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Validation and controls carried out by the registrars of the commercial courts or the judicial courts ruling on commercial matters

Article L123-42

…to enter a piece of information or the declaration that a document has been deposited in the Trade and Companies Register, the Special Register of Commercial Agents or the Special Register of Sole Pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The spouse, partner in a civil solidarity pact or cohabitee of the company director, working in the family business

Article L121-4

…llowing statuses:1° Collaborating spouse;2° Salaried spouse;3° Associate spouse.II. - As far as companies are concerned, the status of collaborating spouse is only authorised for the spouse of the sol…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L123-40

…with the conditions necessary for access to their activity or for the exercise thereof. The nature and scope of this control are specified, for each authority, within this subsection.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article L123-43

Registrations of information and filings of documents in the national register of companies are validated, for the natural persons mentioned in 3° of article L. 123-36, by the President of the regiona…

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