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Showing 32513260 of 19637 articles for Art. CA Paris 6-12-1991 n° 90-10344

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Investigation, authorisation, refusal, renewal

Article R5121-69

I.-For each of the indications for which an application for early access authorisation has been submitted as mentioned in article R. 5121-68, the Haute Autorité de santé will inform the applicant of i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for issuing the European arrest warrant.

Article 695-16

The Public Prosecutor's Office at the investigating, trial or enforcement court that has issued an arrest warrant shall execute it in the form of a European arrest warrant either at the request of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Job search.

Article L5411-6

…ning and updating the personalised employment access project referred to in article L. 5411-6-1, to carry out positive and repeated acts of job-seeking and to accept reasonable offers of employment as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for early access authorisation

Article R5121-68

I.-The application for authorisation to obtain the early access provided for in Article L. 5121-12 is sent by electronic means, by the holder of the exploitation rights or his authorised representativ…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Foreign nationals with EU long-term resident status in another EU Member State and family members

Article R426-6

…articles or a multi-annual residence permit on the basis of Article L. 433-4 must submit their application within three months of their entry into France.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Acts relating mainly to the family

Article A444-67

…ise to the collection of an emolument proportional to the value in full ownership (including in the case of a usufruct reserve) of the property given by each donor:1° According to the following scale,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article L2336-6

…les et communales will receive, for the four years following their last year of eligibility, an allocation equal to 90%, 70%, 50% and then 25% respectively of the repayment received in the year preced…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to all companies

Article R822-62

…any shareholder or partner sentenced to a disciplinary or criminal sanction of temporary disqualification for a period equal to or greater than three months, shall be obliged, by the unanimous decisi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Clearances

Article R4216-6

…4227-4 to R. 4227-14 with the exception of articles R. 4227-5 and R. 4227-12. However, for the application of the provisions of article R. 4227-10, the width of the stairs to be taken into account is…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: House arrest

Article R751-6

The provisions of articles R. 732-6, R. 733-1, R. 733-3 and R. 733-5 to R. 733-13 are applicable to foreign nationals assigned to residence pursuant to article L. 751-6.

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