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Showing 59215930 of 8197 articles for Art. 9 janv. 1991

French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Resolution

Article 1229

…ified as termination. Restitution takes place under the conditions set out in articles 1352 to 1352-9.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72

The offences mentioned in articles 323-1 to 323-4-1 and 411-9 of the Criminal Code, when committed on an automated information processing system, shall be prosecuted, investigated and judged according…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Medical professions.

Article L4431-1

The following provisions of Book I of this Part, in their wording resulting from Law no. 2019-774 of 24 July 2019 on the organisation and transformation of the healthcare system, are applicable in the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Export transactions

Article R442-8-10

The State guarantee referred to in article R. 442-8-9 is granted in respect of cover pursuant to e of 1° of article L. 432-2 to companies authorised to carry out credit insurance operations in France…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Merger

Article L236-11

…ed in the transaction or for the reports referred to in the fourth paragraph of I of Article L. 236-9, and Article L. 236-10.However, one or more shareholders of the acquiring company representing at…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant varieties

Article D623-58-1

…e joint conciliation commission specific to the plant variety field are governed by articles R. 615-9 to R. 615-11, R. 615-13 to R. 615-34, subject to the following adaptations: 1° The words: "Directo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Suspended sentence and adjournment

Article 745

…bligation to refrain from entering into contact with the victim or the civil party, provided for in 9°, 13° and 18°bis of the Article 132-45 of the Penal Code, the sentence enforcement judge or the pr…

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

Article L613-50-5

…the implementation of such resolution measures, implement the measures provided for in sub-section 9 of this section in respect of holders of own funds instruments and eligible commitments.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Specific requirements for groups

Article A356-3

…he group's solvency, the accounting consolidation method, known as method No. 1, defined in Article 9 of the Order of 3 November 2014 on the supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates or the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Public health and environmental whistleblowing

Article L4133-2

…to the reporting or public disclosure mechanism provided for in Chapter II of Title I of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economi…

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