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Showing 491500 of 43303 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 26-3-2020 n° 18-25.893

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-26

For avocats au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de cassation and avocats, except where they act as fiduciaries, the person responsible for responding to any request from the department referred to in Artic…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 10 : Olive oil and table olives

Article R412-26

The enforcement measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 1 and 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 of 11 July 1991, as amended, on the characteristics of olive…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Criminal penalties

Article 1837

I. - Anyone who has fraudulently made the statements prescribed by the provisions of Chapter I of Title IV of Part 1 of Book I and the texts enacted to implement them shall be punished by three years'…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Health department

Article R1424-26

Under the authority of the departmental director of fire and rescue services, the chief medical officer manages the health sub-directorate and advises the fire and rescue service authorities. By way o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Identification of accounts and treatment of overindebtedness

Article L721-26

The Institut d'émission d'outre-mer (French overseas note-issuing bank) shall provide public accountants, at their request, with information relating to accounts of any kind and to safes that it centr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Holders of the State diploma in psychiatric nursing.

Article D4311-26

Nurses who hold the State diploma in psychiatric nursing and who are applying for the State diploma in nursing shall send the chairman of the committee, by registered letter with acknowledgement of re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Provisions specific to "Care without consent".

Article D6124-265

In addition to the premises mentioned in article D. 6124-257, hospital units include: 1° One or more calming areas, adapted to the nature of the patient's care and the therapeutic project implemented,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Compulsory acts

Article 269-1

Where the accused has not been duly informed, as the case may be, of his indictment or of his status as a party to the proceedings, of the notice of the end of the judicial investigation or of the com…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 261-1

The preparatory list must be drawn up in two originals, one of which is deposited at the town hall, and for Paris at the annexed town hall, and the other sent before 15 July to the secretariat-registr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-26

When the bathing water profile defined in article D. 1332-20 indicates :-a potential risk of proliferation of cyanobacteria, i.e. accumulation of cyanobacteria in the form of blooms, slicks or scum ;o…

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