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Showing 13711380 of 45099 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 3-10-2019 n° 18-20.828 FS-PBI

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Société d'exercice libéral de pharmaciens d'officine.

Article R5125-18-1

2° of I of article 6 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to a legislative or regulatory status or whose title is pro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-10

The Articles L. 23-10-7 to L. 23-10-9 are applicable to the sale of a shareholding in a company subject to special regulations requiring that all or part of its capital be held by one or more members…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Gift-shares made to descendants of different degrees.

Article 1078-10

The rules laid down in article 1078-9 shall not apply where a child who has consented to his own descendants being allotted in his stead subsequently himself makes, with the latter, a shared gift inco…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VII: Review in civil matters

Article 1031-10

The declaration shall be delivered to the court registry in as many copies as there are defendants, plus two.The delivery shall be recorded by mention of its date and the visa of the court registrar o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Civil status records

Article 1055-10

The court's decision is provisionally enforceable only if it so orders.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commencement of employment, management, remuneration and benefits

Article R6153-18-1

An intern may benefit from therapeutic part-time work enabling him to gradually resume his duties if his state of health improves, after a favourable opinion from the medical committee, under the foll…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-18-5

I. - The Autorité des marchés financiers shall issue the authorisation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 18 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 of 12 November 2010 on the timing, managemen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-10

The application for authorisation to import a proprietary veterinary medicinal product in parallel is accompanied by a dossier comprising :1° For each presentation, a sample of the proprietary medicin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: National tattoo product vigilance system.

Article R513-10-10

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé shall be responsible for implementing the national tattoo product vigilance system. It defines the guidelines, leads and coordin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Subscription and purchase of shares by employees.

Article L225-187-1

…225-194 and article L. 225-197 remain applicable as they stood prior to the publication of the loi n° 2001-152 du 19 février 2001 sur l'épargne salariale jusqu'à l'expiration d'un délai de cinq ans à…

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