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Showing 931940 of 24212 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 8 July 2008 – no. 07-16.761

French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Personal recovery procedure with compulsory liquidation

Article R742-8

The operative part of the opening judgment shall indicate the address to which the declaration of claims must be submitted and the time limit within which this declaration must be made. It notes, wher…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Group, company or establishment occupational health and prevention services.

Article D4622-8

Specific procedures for managing the occupational health and prevention service may be established by group or company agreement or, failing that, by agreement between the employer and the social and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General duties

Article R4312-8

Nurses shall assist in the action taken by the competent authorities for the protection of health and health education. A nurse who is called upon by a qualified authority either to collaborate in a r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R6123-8

…eement on objectives and performance concluded with the State in application of article L. 6123-11; 8° The allocation of surpluses to skills operators, non-employee training insurance funds, training…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Temporary work.

Article L1255-8

Failure by the user to comply with the provisions relating to the conditions for renewal of the contract, as laid down by the stipulations of the agreement or industry-level agreement concluded pursua…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-8

The Minister may require disclosure of documents of a contractual or advertising nature relating to an insurance or capitalisation transaction.If it appears that a document is contrary to legislative…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Inspections and sampling

Article R241-8

When an approved veterinarian wishes, for the purposes of a test, to be assisted by a delegated member of the competent sports federation, he shall make his request either to that federation or to its…

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

Article R123-82

The register of commerce and companies comprises: 1° An alphabetical file of registered persons; 2° The individual file consisting of the application for registration, supplemented, where applicable,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article R1311-8

In the case of a declassification of the public river domain of a territorial authority or group of territorial authorities, the public enquiry procedure provided for in the second paragraph of articl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Monitoring weekly rest periods

Article R3172-8

An employer who wishes to suspend the weekly rest period in application of article L. 3132-7, relating to seasonal activities, shall immediately inform the labour inspector and, except in cases of for…

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