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Showing 27712780 of 47439 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 5-3-1997 n° 369

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6352-5

The President of the Territorial Council declared to be the de facto accounting officer by a final ruling of the Audit Judge shall be suspended from his capacity as authorising officer until he has re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors.

Article R1222-5

The Board of Directors may only validly deliberate if at least half of its members with voting rights are present. If the quorum is not reached, the Board is reconvened with the same agenda within fif…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The High Council of Statutory Auditors

Article R821-5

When it rules in restricted formation, the High Council meets when convened by the chairman of this formation. The notice period is fifteen days. It may be reduced to eight days in an emergency. The a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning companies not subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-53

In undertakings with fewer than fifty employees, the administrative authority shall verify, within twenty-one days from the date of notification of the proposed redundancy, that: 1° Staff representati…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions applicable to insurance undertakings.

Article R310-5

Securities of any kind, prospectuses, posters, circulars, plates, printed matter and all other documents intended for distribution to the public or published by a company mentioned in 1°, 3° and 4° of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-54

The sum of the positive realisation values of all the contracts entered into with the same company or several companies belonging to the same group within the meaning of article R. 332-13 is taken int…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Cross-border transactions

Article L236-51

As from the completion of the cross-border conversion: 1° All the assets and liabilities of the company resulting from the transformation are those of the company at the origin of the transformation;…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Statement of liabilities

Article R723-5

In the light of all the information produced by the parties, the commission draws up the statement of liabilities and notifies it to the debtor by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. Th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5462-5

For a manufacturer, agent, distributor or importer of a device referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 to carry out, cause to be carried out, disseminate or cause to be disseminated adver…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations to be made by legal entities

Article R123-58

Where a commercial company whose registered office is abroad is not subject to the legislation of a Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, but…

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