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Showing 18711880 of 18997 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 27 Sept. 2005 – no. 03-18.579

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Guarantees granted to holders of mandates at the Assembly of French Guyana

Article R7125-7

…or a calendar year is assessed on the basis of the legal weekly working time set by article L. 3121-27 of the Labour Code, deducting five weeks' paid holiday as well as public holidays. However, when…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Guarantees granted to holders of offices in the Martinique Assembly and the Executive Council

Article R7227-7

…hich elected representatives who have the status of employees are entitled pursuant to article L. 7227-3, the legal working time for a calendar year is assessed on the basis of the legal weekly workin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Guarantees and indemnities granted to Board members

Article D7226-32

…or a calendar year is assessed on the basis of the legal weekly working time set by article L. 3121-27 of the Labour Code, by deducting five weeks' paid holiday as well as public holidays. However, wh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Provisions applicable to the communes of Mayotte

Article R2564-1-1

For its application in Mayotte, article R. 2123-5 is worded as follows:"Art. R. 2123-5.-I.-The duration of the hours credit for one quarter is equal to:" 1° To one hundred and fifty-six hours for mayo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Commission for pharmacy assistants and hospital pharmacy assistants.

Article D4241-22

In addition to the decentralised authority mentioned in article D. 4241-20 who chairs it, this commission comprises: 1° Seven full members and seven alternate members representing pharmacists, propose…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Reintegration into French nationality

Article 24-2

…isition by individual measure of a foreign nationality may, subject to the provisions of article 21-27, be reinstated by declaration made, in France or abroad, in accordance with articles 26 et seq. T…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Surrender procedures resulting from agreements concluded by the European Union with other States.

Article 695-57

…rticles 1 and 2 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, signed in Strasbourg on 27 January 1977, the offence of conspiracy to commit such offences, or the offences referred to in A…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Data communication service providers

Article L549-2

For the purposes of Article 27 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012,…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-42

…as Annexes I to IX to Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 as amended on textile fibre names and the corresponding labelling and marking of t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Additional penalties

Article L823-13

…nnection with which the offence was committed, subject to the reservations mentioned in article 131-27 of the Criminal Code.

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