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Showing 23712380 of 33006 articles for Art. CJEU – C-48/16 – 17 May 2017

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Measures taken to protect the population and the environment

Article R1333-16

…tions;5° the estimated doses received by the potentially exposed population.The competent authority may set discharge limit values in the authorisation issued to the person responsible for a nuclear a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 164 D

…without having their tax domicile there, as well as the persons mentioned in 2 of the article 4 B, may be invited by the tax department to designate, within ninety days of receipt of this request, a…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Right to title

Article R611-16

…gnated. Within the framework provided for in the second sentence of this paragraph, the third party may also request to be mentioned in the copies of the publications of the patent application or of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-167

…rs of the Management Board for the loss they have personally suffered as a result of the same facts may give one or more of them a mandate to act on their behalf before the civil courts, subject to th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration of the administrator, the administrator responsible for the implementation of the plan, the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator

Article R663-16

…irst paragraph of this article exceeds €15,000 in respect of a year. In this case, the remuneration may not be less than €15,000..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Powers (R)

Article R1425-16

…ment for inter-municipal cooperation concerned. The Prefect is notified of all these procedures. He may request a new deliberation from the commission.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-16

…sion of the authorisation as provided for in Article R. 5139-11, the Director General of the Agency may, if the circumstances so require, ask the holder to provide this certificate within the same tim…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions relating to the entry into national territory of the elements or products of the human body mentioned in Article R. 1245-1 when they are not authorised in the Member State of origin

Article R1245-16

…ecision within three months of the date on which the application is deemed to be complete. II. - He may request any additional information he considers necessary, by any means capable of providing a d…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Telephone canvassing and commercial prospecting

Article L221-16

…g the call and the commercial nature of the call. The trader shall also inform the consumer that he may register free of charge on the telephone cold calling opposition list provided for in article L.…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Opposition to cold calling

Article L242-16

…the person penalised. The administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs may decide to postpone publication of a decision, to publish it anonymously or not to publish it in…

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