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Showing 261270 of 27949 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 12-DCC-83 du 13 Jun 2012

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-12

The drawee banker's record of cheque payment incidents due to insufficient funds includes the following information for each incident: 1° The account number, whether it is an individual account or a c…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Management leases.

Article L144-13

…ng transactions relating to goodwill or craft businesses mentioned in 3° of l'article 1er de la loi n° 66-455 du 2 juillet 1966 relative aux entreprises pratiquant le crédit-bail. The provisions of Ar…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Property tax on built-up properties

Article 1382

…d local authorities, when they are assigned to a public service or of general utility and do not produce income, in particular:Palaces, châteaux and national buildings, the Palais-Bourbon and the Pala…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 5: Salaried employees

Article R743-139-13

The Chairman of the National Council or, if he is absent or unable to attend, the Vice-Chairman shall summon the parties by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt within fifteen days of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Conditions specific to the modality: "external radiotherapy, brachytherapy".

Article D6124-133-13

The licence holder must ensure that the particle accelerators used are connected to a system for systematically collecting and archiving dosimetric data.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Common provisions

Article D6132-13-13

When an army hospital is associated with a regional hospital grouping, the staff designated by the chief medical officer of this hospital are involved in the work of the grouping's unified medical com…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Operation

Article 133-14

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Low-voltage lines, pipes and installations inside premises A.

Article R4534-130

The provisions of article R. 4534-129 do not prevent the implementation, in agreement with the user, of any other protective measure appropriate to each case under consideration, such as isolating wor…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-13

…articles 231-27 and 231-28 for the cl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Management of the information and monitoring system for exposure to ionising radiation

Article R4451-127

…verifying and keeping, for at least fifty years after the last exposure, all the results of individual dosimetric monitoring of workers' exposure collected in application of the provisions of articl…

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