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Showing 30413050 of 21304 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 24 Nov. 1998 – Chevassus-Marche

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Cosmetic products.

Article L5431-9

…sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé with any of the information referred to in Article 24 of the aforementioned Regulation, despite a formal notice issued under the conditions laid down i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Opinion of the college and compensation offer

Article R1142-63-32

…tion is certain.II -When the College considers that the conditions set out in II of article L. 1142-24-16 have been met, it informs the claimant that the Office will make an offer of compensation with…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Use of work and personal protection equipment.

Article R4535-7

If they meet the qualification and competence criteria defined by articles R. 4323-24 and R. 4323-100, self-employed workers may carry out periodic inspections of work equipment and personal protectiv…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-15

For the purposes of Article A. 132-11, the profit-sharing account includes an item entitled "Ceded reinsurance balance". Only risk reinsurance is taken into account, i.e. reinsurance in which the rein…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-38

The alphabetical file indicates:1° For natural persons, their birth name, customary name, forenames, date and place of birth, the activity carried out and the address of the establishment or, failing…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: National tattoo product vigilance system.

Article R513-10-11

In the event of a serious adverse reaction likely to be due to a tattooing product, the persons responsible for placing a tattooing product on the market, the health professionals who have observed it…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Use of automated external defibrillators by non-physicians

Article R6311-14

Automated external defibrillators, which for the purposes of this section are fully automatic external defibrillators and semi-automatic external defibrillators, are a medical device authorised to be…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: European UCITS management companies

Article L532-20-2

I.-A management company established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which applies to manage a UCITS governed by French law and aut…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for investment firms and credit institutions providing investment services authorised in France

Article D532-20

I. - Pursuant to I ofArticle L. 532-23, notifications of the establishment of a branch or the use of a tied agent by investment firms and notifications of the use of a tied agent by credit institution…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Interest rates

Article D313-1-A

…e two months before the start of the half-year in question and 60% of the average, over the rolling 24-month period ending two months before the start of the half-year in question, the difference reco…

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