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Showing 491500 of 20783 articles for Art. CE 17-5-1999 n° 188870

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-17

…sation shall be stated in the publication and amending entry in the Trade and Companies Register concerning the dissolution. Until it is wound up, the institution remains subject to supervision by the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1798 bis

…or to keep the accounts mentioned in 6° of Article L. 311-39 of the code of taxes on goods and services;2° Failure to submit the documents mentioned in the third paragraph of article L. 34 of the tax…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation

Article R4641-17

…Employment. They shall not take part in any work likely to involve a conflict of interest. Where necessary, any ministerial representative or any other person whom the representative of the Regional…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-17

Any person who is subject to a suspension by virtue of a decision pronounced by an anti-doping organisation signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code or by the competent body hearing an appeal against s…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Criminal penalties

Article 1741 A

The tax offences commission provided for in article L. 228 of the Book of Tax Procedures is composed, under the chairmanship of a State Councillor, active or honorary, elected by the General Assembly…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Steering Committee

Article R1418-17

…medical and scientific policy with regard to ethical issues likely to arise in its field of competence, in particular when it is consulted on applications for authorisation mentioned in b of 10° of ar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to all national interest markets.

Article R761-17

…ions provide in particular: 1° The hours of sale for each product and according to each sales practice as well as the hours of access to the market's ancillary facilities and activities; 2° The arrang…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Management and information costs and costs relating to the tasks of skills operators

Article R6332-17

…mployment committees, or the branch joint committee, to determine the levels of funding for apprenticeship and professionalisation contracts;3° Expenditure on the operation of observatoires prospectif…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article 706-25-17

…inary committee referred to in the first paragraph of this article shall request that the person concerned be placed, for a period of at least six weeks, in a specialised service responsible for the o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions relating to the implementation by organisers of profit-making sporting events of automated processing of personal data for the purposes of Article L. 332-1

Article R332-17

…onsible for security, ticketing, legal affairs and the organisation of sporting events shall have access to all or part of the personal data and information mentioned in article R. 332-15, within the…

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