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Showing 13011310 of 26428 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 15-11-2017 n° 16-25.023 F-PB

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Relationship between the payment service provider and the payment service user

Article L133-15

I. - The payment service provider issuing a payment instrument must ensure that personalised security data as defined in Article L. 133-4 is not accessible to persons other than the Payment Service Us…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for authorising laboratories

Article R1131-15

The authorisation provided for in Article R. 1131-13 is issued for a period of five years, under the conditions laid down in Articles R. 6122-23 to R. 6122-44. However, before taking the opinion of th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Budgetary rules.

Article R712-15

The budget is a single document comprising all the accounts showing the activities carried out directly by the establishment and those which it controls through the intermediary of persons dependent o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Conditions for registration on the lists of judicial representatives.

Article R812-15

In application of the last paragraph of Article L. 812-3, persons who have successfully completed a course of study of at least three years' duration or of an equivalent duration on a part-time basis…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-10

I.-An examination of a person's constitutional genetic characteristics may only be undertaken for medical or scientific research purposes. It is subject to the express consent of the person, obtained…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-16

Hospital pharmacy assistants who are nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and who are established and legally prac…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1693 quater

I.-Les redevables de la taxe prévue à l'article 299 other than those subject to the simplified actual taxation scheme provided for in article 302 septies A or allowed to file their returns by calendar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-16

The analyses provided for in article R. 1211-14 are supplemented, depending on the nature of the samples envisaged, by other medical biology analyses designed to diagnose transmissible infectious dise…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Fees charged by commercial court registrars

Article A743-16

All of the services performed by the commercial court clerk in the context of a professional recovery procedure appearing in number 145 of the table mentioned in article A. 743-8 gives rise to the col…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition and operation

Article R5112-16

The specialised committee responsible for employment is made up of fifteen members: 1° Five representatives of the State appointed by the Prefect, including the Regional Director for Business, Competi…

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