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Showing 12011210 of 40090 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 9-4-2014 n° 13-10.725

French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Provisions applicable on completion of work

Article R4412-139

At the end of the work, the employer draws up an end-of-work report containing all the information relating to the progress of the work, in particular the dust level measurements, the prior waste acce…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Work using site vehicles, equipment and machinery.

Article R4534-13

It is forbidden to work under the body of a lorry or under a moving part of a construction machine without using an appropriate device to prevent an accident in the event of failure of the normal rest…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Common provisions applicable to authorisation and registration schemes

Article R1333-130

I.-Elements likely to lead to the disclosure of manufacturing secrets or to facilitate malicious acts likely to harm public health, safety and hygiene are sent under a separate, specially identified c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation

Article R6156-13

The lists of voters for the Board of Governors are drawn up by the Minister for Health. Voter status is determined on the day of the ballot. The electoral lists are posted on the website of the Minist…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to groups with a parent undertaking whose registered office is outside the European Union

Article L356-13

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 356-11, where the prudential regime of a third country has been recognised as temporarily equivalent by a delegated act of the European Commission, the Aut…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the recognition and monitoring, in the territory of other Member States of the European Union, of convictions and probation decisions handed down by French courts

Article 764-13

Where the competent authority of the executing State has informed the public prosecutor that it recognises the sentence or the probation decision, the competent authorities of the executing State shal…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Deeds relating principally to loans, debts and securities involved in economic activity

Article A444-137

The division of a mortgage, in the case of the division of a building company or the sale of dwellings belonging to the same property complex (number 124 in table 5) gives rise to the levying of a fee…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Falsified medicinal products

Article L5421-13

Manufacturing, brokering, distributing, advertising, offering for sale, selling, importing and exporting falsified medicinal products as defined in article L. 5111-3 are punishable by five years' impr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° bis: Young innovative companies

Article 1383 D

I. - Municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may, by means of a general decision taken under the conditions laid down in I of l'article…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions for legal entities.

Article L4741-13

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph, fines imposed in application of article L. 4741-12 may not result in the termination or suspension of the employment contract or in any financial los…

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