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Showing 22412250 of 21304 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 24 Nov. 1998 – Chevassus-Marche

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-2-1

The Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may suspend the testing, manufacture, preparation, import, use, export, wholesale distribution, packaging…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Verification procedures

Article R2144-4

The purchaser may require only the candidate to whom it is intended to award the contract to provide evidence that he does not fall within a ground for exclusion from the contract award procedure.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligation of the holder to subcontract

Article R2393-10

The tenderer shall indicate in its tender the percentage of the contract value and the services it intends to subcontract in order to comply with the requirements set by the purchaser in the contract…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Markets of national interest

Article A761-8

The market news department makes available to the managers of markets of national interest, for their own use, the economic and statistical information available to them.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L214-54

…of the periodic information referred to in article L. 214-53.II. - The provisions of article L. 214-24-53 apply under the same conditions to the auditor of the undertaking for collective real estate i…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Informing the administrative authority.

Article L1233-46

…where applicable, the employer's intention to open the negotiations provided for in article L. 1233-24-1. The mere fact of opening such negotiations before this date may not constitute an obstacle to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Recording of offences.

Article L6363-1

…draw up official reports on the offences provided for in articles L. 6355-1 to L. 6355-22, L. 6355-24 and L. 6363-2. Checks are carried out under the conditions laid down in this Title. The Public Pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article R2-19

…st working day following its issue. Without prejudice to the provisions of articles R. 2-22 to R. 2-24, this authorisation is valid until a judicial decision putting an end to the proceedings has beco…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Apprenticeship programme authorisation procedure

Article R1161-16

…matique et des libertés to create the personal data processing referred to in 6° of article R. 1161-24 in application of article 25 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technolog…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Identification of accounts and treatment of over-indebtedness

Article R721-22

…he Institut d'émission d'outre-mer and shall include the information referred to in Articles D. 721-24 and D. 721-25.

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