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Showing 18311840 of 56993 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 11-1-2024 n° 22-16.974

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to professional customers

Article D533-11-1

Investment service providers other than portfolio management companies may, on their own initiative or at the request of a client, treat as a non-professional client, either generally or in respect of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-22

As long as the enforcement of the sentence has not begun, the representative of the public prosecutor's office may, at any time, decide to withdraw the certificate, subject to article 728-22-1. He sha…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-11

A limited liability company, which has appointed a statutory auditor and whose accounts for the last three financial years of twelve months have been regularly approved by the members, may issue regis…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Provisions relating to the analysis of resolvability

Article L311-11

When individual or group preventive resolution plans are drawn up and each time they are updated, the College of Resolution assesses the extent to which the persons concerned may either be subject to…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Unions of mutual insurance companies.

Article R322-111

The association is responsible, on behalf of and in the place of the reinsured mutual insurance company, for making the various disclosures to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution requ…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Exercise of parental authority over the person of the child

Article 1180-4

I.-The departure from French territory of a minor who is the subject of a measure taken by the family affairs judge pursuant to article 373-2-6 of the Civil Code, of a ban on leaving the country witho…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R321-22

An undertaking whose authorisations have all been declared null and void pursuant to Article L. 321-10-2 shall submit to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution for approval, within one m…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Content of the innovation partnership

Article R2172-22

In the consultation documents, the purchaser defines the need for innovative products, services or works. It shall indicate the elements of this definition which lay down the minimum requirements to b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Collection of labile blood products.

Article R1222-22

In blood transfusion establishments, the persons listed in article R. 1222-21 may take venous or capillary blood samples from the ear lobule, fingertips, elbow, back of the hand and malleolar region,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-229

The practice of dentistry normally includes the drawing up by the dental surgeon, in accordance with the observations he is in a position to make in the practice of his art, of the certificates, attes…

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