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Showing 55015510 of 37434 articles for Art. n° 22-18436 · Cass. com. 24 May 2011

French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 12: Unjustified geographical blocking

Article L121-23

Subject to the provisions of article L. 132-24-1, a trader is prohibited from: 1° Blocking or limiting a consumer's access to its online interface, by using technological or other measures, for reason…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the analysis of the group's resolvability

Article L613-43-1

…pact in France of the measures mentioned in 3° of VI of the same article. The collège de résolution may refer the matter to the European Banking Authority under the conditions set out in VII of the sa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions.

Article L5215-32

…General Tax Code, as well as those mentioned in V and V bis of the same article;The urban community may, in addition, collect, in respect of the authority to organise the public distribution of electr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter XX: Levies on betting and gaming

Article 302 bis ZL

…g session carried out by means of a player account opened on a dedicated site as defined in Article 24 of Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 relating to the opening up to competition and the regulation o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Police.

Article L2512-13

…which have modified it as well as by articles L. 2512-7, L. 2512-14 et L. 2512-17.II.-However, the Mayor of Paris is responsible for the municipal police in matters of:1° Public health on the public…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Guarantee fund for damage resulting from preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic acts performed by health professionals

Article L426-1

…e healthcare professional must then reimburse the fund a sum equal to the amount of the excess that may have been provided for in the said insurance contract.II - The fund is also responsible for comp…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title IX: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article L390-1

…26-2-4 is applicable in the version resulting from Order No. 2017-1180 of 19 July 2017.Article L . 324-1 is applicable in the version resulting from Law no. 2015-990 of 6 August 2015 on growth, activi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1 : Issue of plant variety certificates

Article L623-4

I.-A plant variety may be the subject of a title known as a "plant variety certificate" which confers on its holder an exclusive right to produce, reproduce, package for the purposes of reproduction o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-15

…forms of invitation to tender: a) Open invitation to tender, where any interested economic operator may submit a tender, under the conditions laid down in Articles R. 2161-2, 3° of Article R. 2161-3 a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Observatories for medicinal products, medical devices and therapeutic innovation

Article R1413-90

…s and services are at the root of these events or have contributed to them. The Minister for Health may appoint one or more observatories to carry out studies and work in their respective areas of com…

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