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Showing 15811590 of 33859 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 21-5-2014 n° 13-14.474

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 919-13

…of cinematographic establishments of the implementation of the health pass, provided for by decree n° 2021-699 of 1st June 2021 prescribing the general measures necessary for the management of the en…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative penalties

Article L241-13

Any breach of the provisions of articles L. 217-21 to L. 217-23 relating to commercial guarantees is punishable by an administrative fine of up to 15,000 euros for a natural person and 75,000 euros fo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Informal appeals

Article R7343-13

An order by the Minister for Employment specifies the procedures for submitting the appeal referred to in Article R. 7343-12.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138

Without prejudice to the information required by other legislative and regulatory provisions, the labelling of the outer packaging or, where there is no outer packaging, the labelling of the immediate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions adapting Book I.

Article L941-13

In article L. 145-13, the words: "subject to the provisions of the law of 28 May 1943 on the application to foreigners of the laws relating to leases for rent and farm leases" are deleted.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Redundancies for economic reasons.

Article L321-13

Any termination of the employment contract of an employee of an age determined by decree giving entitlement to payment of the insurance allowance provided for in article L. 351-3 entails the obligatio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3° ter: Special provisions for urban renewal projects covered by an agreement with the National Agency for Urban Renewal (ANRU)

Article 1384 G

…of social rental housing demolished under the conditions provided for in articles 6 and 9-1 of law n° 2003-710 of 1st August 2003 on the guidelines and programming for towns and urban renewal and pro…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Administrative penalties

Article L242-13

Any breach of the provisions of articles L. 221-18, L. 221-21 and L. 221-23 to L. 221-27 governing the conditions for exercising the consumer's right of withdrawal and its effects, is punishable by an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Communication and production of documents in the file of a competition authority

Article R483-13

To ensure that a document falls within the prohibition set out in article L. 483-5, the judge may request the opinion of the competent competition authority and send it the relevant document. This opi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Demolition, removal or encapsulation plan

Article R4412-133

On the basis of the risk assessment, the employer draws up a demolition, removal or encapsulation plan using a teleservice, accessible on the internet via a user account and implemented by the ministe…

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