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Showing 371380 of 22854 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 24 Sept. 2013 – no. 12-21.089

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-24

The processing consists of data collected in the context of procedures established by the police and national gendarmerie units, or by customs officers authorised to carry out judicial police duties.I…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Emergency department structure

Article D6124-24

The health care establishment authorised to carry out the activity mentioned in 3° of Article R. 6123-1 organises, either internally or by agreement with another establishment or within the framework…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Recognition of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-24

Enforcement of the sentence or probation decision shall be refused in the following cases:1° The certificate is not produced, is incomplete or manifestly does not correspond to the sentence or decisio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholder default.

Article R228-24

For the application of Article L. 228-27, the defaulting shareholder is given formal notice by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.The sale of shares not admitted to trading on a regulat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-24

I.-Retail establishments providing goods and services and located in international tourist zones may provide weekly rest in shifts for all or some of their staff, under the conditions set out in artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The status of the sole trader

Article L526-24

The right of lien of the tax authorities and social security bodies covers all the professional and personal assets of the sole trader in the event of fraudulent manoeuvres or serious and repeated fai…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-24

On pain of inadmissibility raised automatically, the procedural documents shall be submitted to the court by electronic means. Where this cannot be the case, for a reason unrelated to the person compl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Conversion of the société européenne into a société anonyme.

Article R229-24

The proposed transformation of the société européenne, provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 229-10, is the subject of a notice inserted in a medium authorised to receive legal announceme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Work within the protection perimeter

Article R1322-24

The Prefect, after obtaining the opinion of the hydrogéologue agréé en matière d'hygiène publique under the conditions provided for in article R. 1321-14, specially appointed for this purpose, submits…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-24

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé submits to its control a sample of each batch of the substance which, if used separately from the medical device in which it is…

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