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Showing 191200 of 38470 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 20 May 2014 – no. 13-16.398

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Harm reduction

Article R3411-20

…ng a reasonable profit, under the conditions laid down in Article 5 of European Commission Decision 2012/21/EU of 20 December 2011 on the application of Article 106(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Functional allowances.

Article L2123-20

I.-The allowances allocated for the performance of the duties of mayor and chairman of a special delegation and the maximum allowances for the actual performance of the duties of deputy mayor of munic…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Mediation.

Article 131-13

…uneration is set, at the end of his or her assignment, in agreement with the parties. The agreement may be submitted to the judge for homologation pursuant to article 1565.Failing agreement, the remun…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Own funds

Article R351-20

…The status of counterparties is specified in Article 63 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2015/35 of 10 October 2014; b) The recoverability of funds, taking into account the legal form of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating resources

Article L612-20

…articles L. 511-41, L. 522-14, L. 526-27 and L. 533-2 of this Code or Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on prudential requiremen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-20

…f a reference proprietary medicinal product ;2° The conditions under which marketing authorisations may be considered as part of a global marketing authorisation;3° The rules relating to the labelling…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-20

…when their application is submitted, the information provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, as well as information on the limitations of their rights provided for in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special payment rules

Article L224-20

…or in 1° to 3° of article L. 142-3 of the Insurance Code, the holder of the retirement savings plan may waive the benefit of the provisions of articles 154 bis and 154 bis-0 A or 163 quatervicies of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6123-201

The surgical care activity mentioned in 2° of article R. 6122-25 consists of the diagnostic or therapeutic management of patients requiring or likely to require an invasive or minimally invasive inter…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Genetically modified organisms

Article R412-20

…hs 1 and 3 of Article 21, paragraphs 1 to 3 of Article 24 and Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003, as amended, on genetically…

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