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Showing 26612670 of 13064 articles for Art. CE 9-12-2022 n° 459206

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial and accounting rules

Article R5315-9

…n terms of financial management and accounting; 2° State economic and financial control, in accordance with the conditions laid down by Decree no. 53-707 of 9 August 1953 on State control of national…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Information and communication

Article D7343-93

…ment Platforms Labour Relations Authority. They may obtain a copy, at their own expense, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article L. 311-9 of the Code of Relations between the Public and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article R4241-9

…assistants, on the basis of an application accompanied by a file submitted and examined in accordance with the procedures laid down by the order referred to in article R. 4241-12. The Prefect acknowl…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6 : Exceptional aid to compensate for the loss of turnover due to the ban on the sale and consumption of food and drink in cinemas

Article 919-100

The granting of the exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of national framework scheme no. SA.100959 authorised by the European Commission by decisions of 20 December 2021 C(2021)9880, 16 March…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: INTERREGIONAL AGREEMENT

Article L5621-9

…ts referred to in the first paragraph, which may be obtained both from the president and from the decentralised departments of the State, are made available under the conditions laid down in Article L…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Packaged spring waters.

Article R1321-90

…or labels and in advertising, in any form whatsoever, to use any indication, name, product or service brand, image or other sign, figurative or otherwise, which, when applied to a spring water, is li…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Compensation for distribution costs

Article 917-7

…es eligible for direct grants are those mentioned in 2° of article 222-9.These expenses, with the exception of those relating to the purchase of advertising space on television services, must have bee…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-94

…e by the undertaking strictly within the limits of its cash management requirements; 2° Operating receivables of the undertaking for collective real estate investment.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Failure to open secondary insolvency proceedings on the national territory

Article R692-9

The president of the court shall be seised under the accelerated procedure on the merits of applications for provisional or protective measures provided for in Article L. 692-9.It rules in chambers af…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other conditions of access and practice

Article R519-9

I.-The banking and payment services intermediaries referred to in 2° of the I of article R. 519-4 and their agents referred to in 4° of the same I as well as the agents of the banking intermediaries r…

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