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Showing 24612470 of 42407 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 23-3-1994 n° 535

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition of inter-regional councils and disciplinary chambers of first instance.

Article R4152-3

The inter-regional councils have eight full members and eight alternate members.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Holders of a diploma from the Ecole des Techniques Thermales d'Aix-les-Bains.

Article R4321-33

The persons mentioned inarticle L. 4321-6 are authorised to perform the following acts: 1° Within thermal establishments, the following acts of massage and medical gymnastics: a) Joint mobilisation in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-37

The following shall be entered in the national register of companies, or filed to be appended thereto: 1° For the persons mentioned in 1° of Article L. 123-36, all the information, deeds and documents…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Levy rights.

Article L8113-3

The labour inspection officers referred to in article L. 8112-1 are authorised, in conjunction with criminal investigation officers and competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers, to tak…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter V: National platform to combat the manipulation of sporting events

Article L335-3

…de hasard en ligne or by the company holding exclusive rights mentioned a ̀ l'article 137 de la loi n° 2019-486 du 22 mai 2019 relative à ̀ la croissance et a ̀ la transformation des entreprises.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles.

Article L341-3

Without prejudice to the disclosure rules set out inArticle L. 232-23 of the French Commercial Code, the undertakings referred to in Article L. 341-1, the insurance group companies referred to in Arti…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-33

Where payment of an annual fee, accompanied, where applicable, by the late payment fee, has not been made within the time limits prescribed above, the person in charge of the tasks falling within the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: The national financial intelligence unit

Article R561-36

I. - For the purposes of Article L. 561-24, the TRACFIN department shall notify the person designated under I of Article R. 561-23 in writing, directly and by any means, of its opposition to the execu…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Aid for script rewriting

Article 411-32

Screenplay rewriting grants are awarded in the cases provided for in 2° and 3° of article…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L774-3

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand…

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