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Showing 721730 of 34161 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 18-5-2022 n° 20-20.725 F-B

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article R641-18

The continuation of the business may be authorised under the conditions set out in article L. 641-10 for a period that may not exceed three months, subject to the provisions applicable to farms. This…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Status of employees.

Article D5424-18

An employee benefiting from the bad weather unemployment scheme remains at the disposal of the company employing him/her at the time of the work stoppage throughout the period of inactivity on the sit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Savings account holders

Article R6341-18

The State covers the costs of training for holders of a savings passbook.

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Reporting obligations.

Article R5121-200

Blood establishments and organisations or companies manufacturing or exploiting blood-derived medicinal products which are aware of information likely to cast doubt on the quality of blood or plasma i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Reporting obligations.

Article R5121-201

For the purposes of this sub-section, army hospitals and the army blood transfusion centre are regarded as public health establishments and blood transfusion establishments respectively.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable profits and income

Article 238 bis HF

The approval provided for in article 238 bis HE is issued by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée to original French-language works, as defined in the decree issued in a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Indirect taxes

Article 1808

The hirer of an itinerant still distilling on behalf of a producer may be exonerated if he establishes that the failure to complete the formalities mentioned in 5° of article L. 311-39 of the code of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exits and clearances

Article R4462-20

No workstation where pyrotechnic activities are carried out is more than 7 metres from an effective exit or shelter. This distance is measured according to the actual distance to be covered between th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1639 A bis

I. - Deliberations by local authorities and competent bodies relating to direct local taxation, other than those setting either the rates or the products of taxation, and other than those instituting…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 239 bis AB

…covered by Article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it read prior to the ordonnance n° 2013-676 du 25 juillet 2013 modifying the legal framework for asset management, professional priv…

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