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Showing 17711780 of 58419 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 1-7-2003 n° 861

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-7

When the application for authorisation concerns all or part of the micro-organisms or toxins or products containing them, intended for veterinary use, the Director General of the Agence nationale de s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Emergency medical care authorisation

Article R6123-7

A health care establishment may be authorised to provide exclusive care for sick or injured children in a paediatric emergency unit mentioned in 3° of article R. 6123-1.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for issuing approval.

Article R6312-7

The persons making up the crews of the vehicles specially adapted for land medical transport mentioned in article R. 6312-8 belong to the following categories: 1° Holders of the ambulance driver's Sta…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Formation of the company

Article R6223-79

Natural or legal persons practising the profession of medical biologist may, under the conditions laid down inarticle 31-1 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990, set up a "société de participations f…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article L2333-71

The municipality or public establishment shall distribute the balance, after deduction of a deduction for reimbursement costs, according to the uses defined in article L. 2333-68. The provisions of th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2 : Land registration tax

Article 743 bis

For properties leased for a period of more than twelve years under the conditions provided for in 2 of Article L. 313-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code, the basis of assessment for the land registr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 74-2

Officers of the judicial police, assisted where necessary by agents of the judicial police, may, on the instructions of the public prosecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the Articles 56 to 62…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration of the administrator, the administrator responsible for the implementation of the plan, the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator

Article A663-7

In accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of article R. 663-7, the task of administering the company during receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings (number 6 of table 4-1) gi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Investment for the preparation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-73

Only the following expenditure directly allocated to the preparation of the work, excluding the production company's own operating expenditure, is eligible for investment of the sums entered in the au…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to neighbourhood noise

Article R1336-7

Overall emergence in a given location is defined as the difference between the ambient noise level, including the particular noise in question, and the residual noise level, made up of all the usual o…

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