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Showing 28812890 of 18068 articles for Art. CJEU – Euronics Belgium – 8 March 2013 – C-343/12

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings

Article L421-8

Members of the administrative, management and supervisory bodies, managers, employees and agents of market undertakings are bound by professional secrecy.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Regional and interregional councils

Article D4311-85

The regional or inter-regional council of the order of nurses is composed as follows: 1° Where the total number of nurses on the most recently published register is less than or equal to 10,000 : a) T…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Offences committed by the employer or his delegate.

Article L4741-8

Employing minors in habitual begging, either openly or under the guise of a profession, is punishable by the penalties set out in articles 225-12-6 and 227-29 of the Criminal Code.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Provisions applicable to communes in the departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion

Article R2563-8

Expenditure eligible for the grant includes: a) The payment of holiday allowances to agents responsible for listing buildings that do not correspond to any address, as well as to agents responsible fo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional transplant activities referred to in Article L. 162-30-5 of the Social Security Code

Article R6123-82

…scope of article L. 1234-2 or article L. 1243-6 of the present code or of the activity mentioned in 8° of article R. 6122-25 and which combines the transplantation of organs or parts of organs, tissue…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2224-12-4

…of territorial authorities shall, if necessary, amend the tariff within two years from 1 January 2008 for water allocation zones created on that date and, for other zones, from the date of their class…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Control of the performance of the partnership contract by the purchaser

Article R2234-8

The purchaser may ask the contractor for any document required to monitor the performance of the partnership contract in accordance with Article L. 2132-1.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Supporting documents and other evidence of the absence of grounds for exclusion

Article R2143-8

Where applicable, applicants must produce the documents specified in articles R. 1263-12, D. 8222-5 or D. 8222-7 or D. 8254-2 to D. 8254-5 of the French Labour Code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article A822-28-12

…whose purpose is the practice of statutory auditing. 07. Engagement: in accordance with article R. 820-1-1 of the French Commercial Code, the term engagement covers: -the statutory audit engagement a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General scheme

Article L214-86

…issement mentioned in II of article L. 331-4-1 of the Code forestier are subject to articles L. 214-86 to L. 214-113 of this Code. Sociétés Civiles de Placement Immobiliers or Sociétés d'Epargne Fores…

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