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Showing 20612070 of 55089 articles for Art. CA Bordeaux 2-3-2022 n° 18/04413

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Access to documents

Article R8113-3-3

…22-8. The request is notified in writing to the natural or legal person to whom the right of communication is addressed. Where the right of communication concerns information relating to unidentified…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-39

When information held by the services and units mentioned in Article 695-9-31 have been transmitted to them by a Member State on the basis of the provisions of Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA, they ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-37

The services and units referred to in Article 695-9-31 shall, at their request, forward to the competent services of the Member States the information, referred to in the same Article, that is useful…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-38

…1 could be useful to another Member State either in preventing an offence falling within one of the categories listed in Article 694-32 and punishable in France by a custodial sentence of at least thr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Summons to appear, immediate appearance and deferred appearance

Article 397-3-1

…e arrest with electronic surveillance pursuant to the first paragraph of article 142-12, or, in the cases provided for in articles 395 to 397-7, in pre-trial detention pursuant to the second paragraph…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK III: Certain forms of sale and exclusivity clauses.

Article Annexe 3-3-1

CANDIDATE FOR THE EXAMINATION FOR ACCESS TO THE TRAINEESHIP PROVIDED FOR IN 4° OF ARTICLE R. 321-18 AND ARTICLES R. 321-20 to R. 321-25 OF THE CODE OF COMMERCEI, the undersigned ......................…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Assignment of the debtor's assets.

Article R642-37-3

…ant to Article L. 642-19 shall, at the registrar's initiative, be notified to the debtor and communicated by simple letter to the auditors. Appeals against these decisions may be lodged with the Court…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Adoption judgment

Article 354

…ns laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. The transcription takes the place of the birth certificate of the adopted person. The transcription takes the place of the adopted person's birth certific…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special conditions for the "rehabilitation" option

Article D6124-209

When the care is provided under an agreement with a structure authorised to carry out medical and rehabilitation care pursuant to I of Article R. 6123-144, this agreement provides in particular for: 1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special conditions for the "rehabilitation" option

Article D6124-207

…Hospitalisation at Home doctor referred to in article D. 6124-198 is a doctor specialising in physical and rehabilitation medicine or with proven training or experience in rehabilitation. The procedu…

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