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Showing 22612270 of 66453 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 19-9-2007 n° 06-15.295 and Cass. civ. 3-10-2019 n° 18-22.945 F-D

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedures for recovery of financial penalties.

Article D48-31

…as a sentence, the sum of money relating to the costs of the judicial or administrative proceedings and, if applicable, the sum of money allocated to a public fund or a victim support organisation sha…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedures for recovery of financial penalties.

Article D48-34

Articles 108 to 110 of Decree No. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management are applicable to foreign financial penalties.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Right to leave

Article D7121-36

To benefit from continuous annual leave, in application of article D. 7121-31, the employee must send the paid leave fund the certificates he has received from his employer or successive employers. Th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions for referral to the Agency by academies, medical or scientific learned societies and approved associations

Article D1418-38

The Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine will acknowledge receipt of the request and specify the time required to examine it. If the request requires resources that are excessive in relati…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Rules applicable to contracting authorities

Article R2161-19

…m requirements. Following these changes, the contracting authority shall allow tenderers sufficient and identical time to modify their tenders and, where appropriate, to resubmit them.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Shared functions

Article R6132-19

In order to jointly organise medical biology, diagnostic and interventional imaging and pharmacy activities, as well as clinical or medico-technical activities, the establishments belonging to the con…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-35

The medical opinion referred to by Article 706-136-1 and by Article D. 47-34 consists of at least one psychiatric assessment ordered by the sentence enforcement judge. The sentence enforcement judge m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Generators, kits and precursors.

Article R5122-18

…r, with the exception of article R. 5122-17, are applicable to advertising for the generators, kits and precursors defined in 8°, 9° and 10° of article L. 5121-1.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article D49-31

…the duties devolved upon him or her by this Code or by the provisions of the Criminal Code, travel and subsistence allowances shall be allocated to him or her under the conditions referred to in arti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quarantine and isolation measures

Article R3131-19

…Police referred to inarticle 73-1 of decree no. 2004-374 of 29 April 2004 on the powers of prefects and the organisation and operation of State services in the regions and departments, the State repre…

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