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Showing 18711880 of 51993 articles for Art. CE 24-4-2019 n° 419912 confirming CAA Nancy 22-2-2018 n° 17NC00780

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Formation of the company

Article R5125-24-5

…plicable, the decision of the competent professional body referred to in article R. 5125-24-4. On receipt of this document, the Registrar will register the company and inform the President of the Asso…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Single staff register

Article D1221-24-1

Acknowledgements of receipt of the secondment declarations referred to in articles R. 1263-3, R. 1263-4 and R. 1263-6 are appended to the single personnel register and made accessible to the members o…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Levies

Article R512-24-1

Where goods are made available on the market by means of a remote communication technique, the authorised agents may order, where applicable under the conditions provided for in Article L. 512-16, of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Reimbursement of expenses

Article R2123-22-3

…sentation of a statement of expenses and is limited, per month, to the amount of the maximum allowance likely to be paid to the mayor of a municipality of less than 500 inhabitants pursuant to the sca…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Operation

Article L3121-24-1

…a general information bulletin on the achievements and management of the departmental council , space is reserved for the expression of the elected representatives' groups. The terms of application o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-58

…an information exchange agreement with the master AIF or UCITS. However, this agreement may be replaced by internal conduct of business rules when the master AIF or UCITS and the feeder general-purpos…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for processing applications

Article R1142-63-24

The application referred to in Article L. 1142-24-10 shall be lodged with the Office against a receipt or sent to the Office by any means capable of proving the date on which it was sent. It is accomp…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-24-1

The majority required to approve one of the transactions mentioned in the first paragraph of article 27 of Law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies is that pro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Formation of the company

Article R5125-24-3

…financières de profession libérale de pharmaciens d'officine is formed subject to the condition precedent that it is entered on the register of the relevant section of the Ordre des pharmaciens, unde…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Powers of the overseas regions in relation to economic development and regional planning

Article L4433-24-1-2

…e event that this has not been done by the president of the regional council and after a formal notice has remained without result, exercise the powers devolved to the president of the regional counci…

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