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Showing 661670 of 43690 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 16-3-2023 n° 21-25.002

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article D532-21

Where, pursuant to I ofArticle L. 532-23, an investment firm or credit institution wishes to provide custody account keeping services in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agre…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 5: Data retention

Article R142-21

Any file that has not been updated within five years of the recording of the first data it contains shall be deleted, except in the following cases: 1° A file containing data relating to a residence p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional advisory committees

Article R6113-21

Professional advisory committees may be set up, by a decree which specifies their composition and defines the organisational and operational procedures, under one or more certifying ministers, accordi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article 16

The following have the status of judicial police officers:1° Mayors and their deputies;2° Gendarmerie officers and ranks, gendarmes nominatively designated by order of the ministers of justice and the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Execution of investigative measures.

Article 160

The parties and third parties who are required to assist with the investigative measures shall be summoned, as the case may be, by the clerk of the judge conducting the investigation or by the technic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 169

If, at a hearing before a trial court, a person heard as a witness or for information contradicts the conclusions of an expert report or provides new information from a technical point of view, the pr…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-21

The procedures for organising the interview are defined by the Director General of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons.The procedures for transcribing the personal i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV : Provisions applicable to import taxes, petroleum products and removal from warehouses

Article 1695

I. - Value added tax is declared and collected when it becomes due, for the following transactions:1° Imports for which the person liable is a non-taxable person not identified in accordance with the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Embryo storage

Article R2151-21

When suspending or withdrawing an authorisation to store embryos, the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine organises the transfer of these embryos to another organisation authorised to sto…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Delivery.

Article 1619

In all other cases, Either the sale is made of a certain and limited body, Or it has as its object distinct and separate land, Or it begins with the measure, or with the designation of the object sold…

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