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Showing 51215130 of 66871 articles for Art. s. 1591 and 1592 · Cass. com. 3 May 1977

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Articles of association, share capital, shares.

Article R4381-34

The following may be contributed to a société civile professionnelle d'infirmiers ou d'infirmières ou de masseurs-kinésithérapeutes, in property or in enjoyment 1° All intangible rights, whether movab…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the opening of a branch and the exercise of the freedom to provide services by undertakings governed by the Insurance Code, the Mutual Insurance Code and the Social Security Code

Article R321-32

…rité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution pursuant to B of I of Article L. 612-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code, with the exception of the undertakings referred to in 1° of III of Article L. 31…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products)

Article R1245-34

…s produits de santé is responsible for :1° Assigning the code defined in a of 2° of Article R. 1245-31 to the establishments it authorises pursuant to Article L. 1243-2, the first and second paragraph…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Health-related products

Article R1453-3

I.-For the agreements referred to in 1° of Article R. 1453-2, each company shall make public the following information in addition to its own identity, including its corporate name, its corporate purp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article 763-3

…nitoring must carry out this measure following a custodial sentence, the sentence enforcement judge may, after hearing the convicted person and after consulting the public prosecutor, modify or supple…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Conditions for authorisation

Article R1261-30

…1° The number of donations of human remains received each year; 2° The medical teaching activities and research projects undertaken; 3° The number and nature of consultations with ethical bodies; 4°…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: AIF marketing and pre-marketing procedures.

Article D214-32-4-1-1

I.-Pursuant toArticle L. 214-24-2-1, a portfolio management company may undertake pre-marketing activities in France or in another Member State of the European Union except where the information prese…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: AIF marketing and pre-marketing procedures.

Article R214-32-4-1-2

For the purposes of this section, with the exception of articles R. 214-32-20 and R. 214-32-35, references to Member States, Member States of the European Union and the European Union shall be underst…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Relations between public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status and their member municipalities

Article L5211-11-3

The creation of a conference of mayors is compulsory in public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status, except where the bureau of the public establishment already incl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Provisions common to the National Commission for Voting Operations and the Regional Commissions for Voting Operations

Article R2122-48-3

The procedures for referring cases to the judicial court and the rules of procedure set out in articles R. 2122-39 to R. 2122-42 apply to challenges to decisions relating to the election propaganda do…

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