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Showing 27412750 of 22448 articles for Art. CE 5-11-2014 n° 370845

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Application to vary a marketing authorisation requiring an assessment

Article D5141-56

…141-8 for a variation to a marketing authorisation requiring an assessment as part of a national procedure or a mutual recognition procedure for which France acts as the reference Member State is set…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Infringements of the rules concerning work by young people and by pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding

Article R4743-5

…1 to L. 4153-5 and the decrees implementing them is punishable by a fifth-class fine. Repeated offences are punishable in accordance with articles 132-11 and 132-15 of the French Penal Code.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: OVERSEAS REGIONS

Article L4437-5

Articles L. 4434-1 to L. 4434-4 shall apply in Mayotte from 1 January 2014.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-50

…de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may only authorise the branch within the limits of the services that the third-country undertaking to which it belongs is authorised to provide. II.Articles L.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating conditions

Article L425-5

I. - By way of exception to I of Article L. 425-4, after obtaining the consent of the client concerned, the operator of the organised trading system may trade by matching with interposition of the pro…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Tobacco

Article 570

I. - In accordance with the procedures laid down by regulation, all suppliers are subject to the following obligations:1° Deliver tobacco only to the tobacconists designated in article 568;2° Retain o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: "Socio-educational or cultural activities" speciality

Article A212-53

The organisation of the "socio-educational or cultural activities" speciality of the Higher State Diploma in Youth, Popular Education and Sport is set out in the relevant Order of 20 November 2006.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Preventing business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures.

Article R611-52

…ed at the end of each of the years of the execution of the agreement. The annual amount of the advance shall be set by order communicated by the Registrar to the Public Prosecutor.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Preventing business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures.

Article R611-51

…he assignment prepared as part of the conciliation is implemented after the opening of safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings by the same person in execution of the judicial man…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Preventing business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures.

Article R611-50

…the event of recourse to conciliation is communicated without delay to the Public Prosecutor's Office.An appeal may be lodged against it by the debtor, the mandataire ad hoc, the conciliator, the man…

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