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Showing 46414650 of 5132 articles for Art. 13 nov. 1997

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules governing the operations of sociétés de crédit foncier (building societies)

Article L513-14

…and related costs, interim financial costs and financing costs, is assigned pursuant to Article L. 513-13 of this Code, the contract may provide for this assignment to be subject to acceptance by the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-15

I. - The fund referred to in article L. 2135-9 is managed by a joint association, administered by a board of directors made up of representatives of employee trade unions and professional employers' o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to insurance undertakings.

Article R332-3-1

…article R. 332-2 and the loans mentioned in the third and fourth paragraphs of 1° of article R. 332-13, respectively issued or obtained by the same company, the same body or the same sub-fund of a com…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article L321-18

…ining complaints made against the same persons in connection with the exercise of their profession; 13° Sanctioning, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 321-23-2, breaches of the laws, reg…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-30

…for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 11 and 12, paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 of Article 13, Article 14, Article 15 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 15a of amended Regulation (EC) No 1760/…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter I ter: Approved management centres, management and accounting associations, approved associations of the liberal professions and approved joint management bodies

Article 1649 quater H

…amination does not constitute the start of one of the procedures mentioned in articles L. 12 and L. 13 of the Book of Tax Procedures. They are authorised to draw up declarations for the tax authoritie…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title V: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R154-2

…eted; 11° 9° of Article R. 142-1 is deleted; 12° The last paragraph of Article R. 142-4 is deleted; 13° In Article R. 142-6, the provisions of 5° and 6° are not applicable and the references to the co…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title IV: Group insurance

Article A143-4

…borne by members and beneficiaries, for schemes which do not provide for a given level of benefits; 13° The options available to members and beneficiaries to obtain payment of their retirement benefit…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Hosting of paper-based personal health data

Article R1111-16

…d by the Minister for Culture under the conditions defined by articles 20-5 to 20-8 and 20-10 to 20-13 of decree no. 79-1037 of 3 December 1979 relating to the competence of public archive services an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Protection and environment

Article R1523-2

…erritory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands subject to the adaptations provided for in II: Article R. 1333-64 shall apply in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from…

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