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Showing 29612970 of 52466 articles for Art. Cass. com. 7-2-1989 n° 242

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Decision on recognition and enforcement and enforcement and appeals.

Article 728-49

If the public prosecutor refuses to approve the adaptation proposal that he has made, he may either submit a new request to the president of the judicial court or the judge delegated by him, submittin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-7

Where a court orders the immediate release of a person whose pre-trial detention is unlawful due to non-compliance with the time limits or formalities provided for in this Code, it may, in the same de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IVa - Brokerage of medicinal products

Article R5124-74

The declaration provided for in Article L. 5124-20 shall be sent to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé by the person carrying out the brokering activity or by the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Professional inadequacy.

Article R6152-79

Professional incompetence consists of a duly established inability to carry out the work or assume the responsibilities normally associated with the duties of a hospital practitioner. It results from…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Levy and collection.

Article L1241-7

The procedures for applying this chapter are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, and in particular : 1° The list of tissues mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 1241-1 that may be re…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: General conditions of employment, recruitment and grading

Article R113-7

The contract includes a trial period of : -four months of actual service for categories 1, 2 and 3 ; -six months of actual service for category 1 "head of department" and management posts. This probat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Limiting the number of public houses.

Article L3331-7

In each municipality in which the mayor exercises, by delegation of the representative of the State in the department, the prerogatives mentioned in the first paragraph of 2 of article L. 3332-15, a m…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-7

Diplomas awarded on completion of one of the following courses are considered as artistic training for authors:1° Training provided :a) From a French or European higher art school;b) From any school t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia.

Article L947-7

Article L. 723-4 reads as follows:"Art. L. 723-4 Subject to the provisions of Article L. 947-9, persons aged at least thirty who are entered on the electoral roll drawn up pursuant to Article L. 947-6…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4131-7

A Conseil d'Etat decree determines : 1° The conditions under which nationals of a Member State of the European Union, the Principality of Andorra or a State party to the Agreement on the European Econ…

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