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Showing 641650 of 58062 articles for Art. CE 1-4-2015 n° 369586

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Information on beneficial owners

Article L561-45-1

…ers as defined in Article L. 561-2-2 : 1° Where they are established on French territory in accordance with Article L. 123-11 of the Commercial Code, the companies and entities mentioned in 2°, 3° and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Eligible training courses and use of the account

Article L6323-17-4

…s project is treated as a period of work : 1° For the determination of the rights of the persons concerned with regard to annual paid leave ; 2° With regard to the rights that the employee derives fro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV bis: Procedure applicable to serial or unsolved crimes

Article 706-106-4

…igating judge for the purpose of tracing the possible criminal career of a person convicted of offences under Article 706-106-1 or for whom there are one or more plausible reasons to suspect that he o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Commercial authorisation

Article R752-44-19

…L. 752-1 and L. 752-23, and to the texts adopted for their application is observed, the operator concerned is informed, with the responsibility, where applicable, of informing the holder of the commer…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary subsection: Prohibition on using the services of a person who has been the subject of an anti-doping sanction

Article R232-41-15

…rench Anti-Doping Agency shall inform the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Federation concerned and, where applicable, the foreign National Anti-Doping Organisation concerned, of the identi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition of tattoo products.

Article R513-10-4

…e laid down by order of the Minister for Health, on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé: 1° The list of substances that may…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Telehealth in the workplace

Article R4624-41-1

…ring of the worker's state of health may be carried out remotely, by video transmission, in compliance with the conditions laid down in Title VII of Book IV of Part One of the Public Health Code, by t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-4-1

…L. 952-23-1 of the Education Code a contract on the basis of which he/she receives remuneration in addition to the income derived from the performance of his/her duties as a ge…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 5: Temporary documents issued when applying for a residence permit

Article R431-15-4

…424-10, as soon as they are granted subsidiary protection, foreign nationals are informed of the procedures enabling them to access the teleservice mentioned in article R. 431-2 in order to submit an…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary subsection: Prohibition on using the services of a person who has been the subject of an anti-doping sanction

Article R232-41-16

…erations shall inform the French Anti-Doping Agency, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by any means that guarantees the origin and receipt of this transmission of information, of…

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