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Showing 13111320 of 37258 articles for Art. CE 10-3-2020 n° 427104

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations

Article L513-10

…ns and exposures referred to in articles L. 513-3 to L. 513-7, obligations foncières or other resources benefiting from the preferential right defined in article L. 513-11, sociétés de crédit foncier…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Competence required of practitioners

Article R2142-10

I.-Practitioners meeting the following cumulative conditions of training and experience are deemed to be able to prove their competence to carry out the clinical activities of medically assisted procr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Safeguard plan.

Article L626-10

…nates the persons required to implement it and mentions all the commitments made by them that are necessary to safeguard the business. It mentions separately the cash contributions of the persons who…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Preparation of the draft plan.

Article D626-10

…default interest, tax or customs fines, surcharges, prosecution costs, regardless of the tax or miscellaneous State budget product to which these penalties or costs apply ; 2° Aux majorations de reta…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Hygiene of buildings and built-up areas.

Article L1331-10

…ll discharges of non-domestic wastewater into the public sewerage system must be authorised in advance by the mayor or, where responsibility for sewerage at the point of discharge has been transferred…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French authorities of a European protection order

Article 696-100

…led; 3° The protection measure was ordered on the basis of conduct that does not constitute an offence under French law; 4° The European protection order is based on the enforcement of a measure or pe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Qualifying conditions

Article A742-10

…ion. They comprise:1° An oral test on a subject relating to commercial law, civil and commercial procedure, the professional regulations governing commercial court clerks or the organisation and manag…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-10

…irectors comprises twenty-three members appointed by order of the Minister for the Economy and Finance and the Minister for Tourism:1° Seven representatives of holiday voucher beneficiaries, appointed…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1048 ter

…122-17 to L. 2122-19 of the General Code on the Ownership of Public Persons or Article 13 of Ordinance No. 2004-559 of 17 June 2004 on partnership contracts, or by local authorities, their groupings o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-10

The sponsor is responsible for compensation for the harmful consequences of research involving the human person for the person who undergoes the research and for those of his successors in title, unle…

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