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Showing 34213430 of 3964 articles for Art. CA Paris – 24 Nov. 2016

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

Article L596-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this chapter, the following provisions are applicable in New Caledonia in their wording resulting from Ordinance no. 2020-1733 of 16 December 2020, unless ot…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-16

…e articles of association must include those which, by virtue of the articles 8, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 24 of the same law they may contain, concerning respectively the distribution of shares, the manager…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Indirect taxes

Article 1798 bis

…lure to inform the administration in the event of an irregularity mentioned in 2° of article L. 311-24 of the code of taxes on goods and services;4° The use of documents mentioned in 4° of article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Duties and activities of pharmacies

Article L5125-1

A dispensary is defined as an establishment dedicated, on the one hand, to the retail dispensing of the medicinal products, products and articles mentioned in articles L. 4211-1 and L. 5125-24 and, un…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Company mutual funds

Article L214-164

I. - The regulations governing the fund set up to manage sums invested in application of Title III of Book III of Part III of the Labour Code relating to employee savings plans provide for the establi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 21

…itions laid down in articles 16-1 A or 20-1 of this code; 1° quater Controllers under the status of Parisian administrations carrying out their duties in the public thoroughfare speciality and Paris s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Industries dealing with perishable materials or having to respond to an extraordinary increase in workload

Article R3132-1

Establishments in the industries listed in the following table, which allocate the weekly rest period to all employees on the same day, benefit from the suspension of the weekly rest period provided f…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 9: Control of securities

Article 67 quater

…offences relating to cross-border crime, to check compliance, by persons whose foreign nationality can be deduced from objective factors external to the person concerned, with the obligations to hold…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO NEW CALEDONIA

Article L732-2

…provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, are applicable in New Caledonia, subject to the ad…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L733-2

…provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the ad…

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