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Showing 18111820 of 51146 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 2 Nov. 2011 – no. 10-22.859

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: "ORSAN" system

Article R3131-10-5

…The rights of access and rectification provided for in Articles 15 and 16 of Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 may be exercised with the health establishment or the medical-psychologica…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial assistance

Article R5132-10-12

The recruitment of the people mentioned in article L. 5132-1 on assignment contracts by temporary work integration companies entitles them to financial aid, up to the number of integration posts set b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial assistance

Article R5132-10-13

…udget revalorises this aid each year in line with changes in the minimum growth wage from 1 January 2015.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article D561-10-1

The threshold provided for in 11° of Article L. 561-2 is set at 10,000 euros per transaction or related transactions.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-59

…mpany's salaried employees provided for in the third sentence of the second paragraph of Article L. 225-197-1 is not applicable to companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Management and administration

Article L22-10-4

…o any controlled company or company that controls it within the meaning of II and III of Article L. 233-16, the provisions of said contract corresponding, where applicable, to items of remuneration, c…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions applicable to natural persons

Article L123-10

Individuals applying for registration in the Trade and Companies Register or the National Register of Companies as a business in the trades and crafts sector must declare the address of their business…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-10

…sale, or pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or pursuant to the second paragraph of article 2346 of the Civil Code, shall not take place until ten days at the earliest after notification of th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Management leases.

Article L144-10

Any management lease contract or any other agreement containing similar clauses, granted by the owner or operator of a business that does not meet the conditions provided for in the above articles, is…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Commercial agents.

Article L134-10

The right to commission can only be extinguished if it is established that the contract between the third party and the principal will not be performed and if the non-performance is not due to circums…

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