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Showing 431440 of 34876 articles for Art. CA Douai 4-5-2023 n° 22/00072

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-5

…tly in excess of the requirements set out in Part 3 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 and the additional capital requirements referred to in Article L. 533-4-4, so that cyclical economic fluctuations do no…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Registration procedure for travel agents and other operators selling travel and holidays.

Article R211-22

Any natural or legal person who, in any capacity whatsoever, acquires the majority of the share capital of a company registered in the register referred to in article L. 141-3 or who is entrusted with…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Storage of embryonic stem cells

Article R2151-22

…e storage conditions enabling the Agence de la biomédecine to ensure, in particular, that the cells can be traced, that means have been implemented to prevent their contamination and that the requirem…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Unit dispensing of medicinal products in dispensing pharmacies

Article R5132-42-5

Without prejudice to the case where the number of units prescribed corresponds to the number of units appearing in an initial outer packaging that complies with the provisions of article R. 5121-138,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Applicable regulations.

Article L1262-4-5

…owner shall inform posted employees, by means of posters in the workplace, of the regulations applicable to them pursuant to article L. 1262-4. The notice shall be easily accessible and translated in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R4234-22

Articles R. 626-4 and R. 636-1 of the Code of Administrative Justice relating to notification of investigative measures and withdrawal are applicable before the Disciplinary Board of First Instance an…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 4: Conditions under which the purchaser may reject the subcontractor proposed by the contractor

Article R2393-22

…he purchaser rejects a subcontractor, it shall provide the tenderer or holder with a written justification stating the reasons for the rejection.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-22

When drawing up the on-call roster, the most representative departmental emergency medical transport association mentioned in article R. 6312-20 will call on all the approved medical transport compani…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Municipal associations (R).

Article R2113-22

…R. 2511-17 and R. 2511-18 relating to the participation of associations in municipal life are applicable to municipalities resulting from a merger with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants under the condit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-5-4

…ed on the conditions for implementing the sentences handed down by the judicial authorities and the care of convicted persons by the prison and judicial youth protection services; 2° monitoring the pr…

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