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Showing 15711580 of 51993 articles for Art. CE 24-4-2019 n° 419912 confirming CAA Nancy 22-2-2018 n° 17NC00780

French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

Article L512-22-2

For the application of the third paragraph of the article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the public prosecutor may, for the same purposes and under the same conditions, make public, through the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

Article L512-22-1

The dispositions de l'article 11 du code de procédure pénale ou celles relatives au secret professionnel ne font pas obstacle à la notification d'informations relatives à un contenu illicite aux perso…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 220 quater

…ith a view to the buyout.This scheme is granted upon approval by the Minister for the Economy, Finance and the Budget upon application made prior to 15 April 1987.II. - The benefit of the provisions o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R321-22

…eeable timescales and financial terms of the winding-up, as well as the staffing and material resources deployed to manage the residual commitments. Where the management of residual commitments is del…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-22

…invest up to 20% of its assets in equities and debt securities of a single issuer where, in accordance with the fund rules or the SICAV's articles of association, the aim of the UCITS' investment poli…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Commission for pharmacy assistants and hospital pharmacy assistants.

Article D4241-22

In addition to the decentralised authority mentioned in article D. 4241-20 who chairs it, this commission comprises: 1° Seven full members and seven alternate members representing pharmacists, propose…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-9

…222-7, by the payment to production companies of advances exclusively repayable from the receipts of the work in question; 2° In the case menti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Protection of sole traders

Article L526-22

…cipal debtor. By way of derogation from articles 2284 and 2285 of the Civil Code and without prejudice to the legal provisions relating to the unseizability of certain assets, in particular section 1…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3rd Subsection: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 223 S

…down in this section in the event of a company leaving the group apply when a company in the group ceases to meet the conditions laid down for the application of the regime defined in this section. T…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Storage receipts

Article R522-24-10

…istration is established. The appeal shall be lodged by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt addressed to the registry of that court within fifteen days of its notification. This appeal m…

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