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Showing 321330 of 56635 articles for Art. Decree 2023-1409 of 29-12-2023

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Budgetary rules

Article A712-29

The restrictive nature of the appropriations voted is assessed at the level of each service, whether it is a main service, a secondary service or a sub-service. Within each of these services, the prin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry in the Ile-de-France region

Article R711-29

…eral meeting meets whenever it is convened by its chairman, on his own initiative or at the request of the minister responsible for overseeing the chambers of commerce and industry. The chairman also…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation at regional level

Article R1114-29

The regional assembly is made up of all the regional representatives of the member national associations and representatives of the associations approved at regional level. The statutes and internal r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Worker monitoring and individual health monitoring

Article R4452-29

When exposure in excess of the limit values is detected or when individual monitoring reveals that a worker is suffering from a disease or abnormality likely to result from exposure to artificial opti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry.

Article R712-29

For loans concerning airport and port services or facilities delegated to network establishments, authorisation is granted after an opinion from the delegating authority has been requested by the dele…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Value added tax

Article 293 A

…the tax becomes chargeable at the time when the goods are deemed to be imported, within the meaning of 2 of I of Article 291.The import declaration means the customs declaration, within the meaning of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article L228-29-6

In the event of non-compliance by the company with either articles L. 228-29-1 or L. 228-29-2, or the conditions under which decisions must be taken at general meetings and the publication formalities…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Specific provisions for mobile or portable equipment emitting ionising radiation

Article R4451-29

…measures adopted by the employer must be recorded in a form which allows consultation for a period of at least ten years.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Maintenance of the National Register of Companies

Article R123-294

Any automatic entry in the National Register of Companies is made by the keeper of the register either on its own initiative or on the basis of a declaration or filing made by the authorised authoriti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I bis: Priority question on constitutionality

Article R*49-29

…ng out the reasons on which it is based. Where the decision refusing to refer the priority question of constitutionality is challenged in an appeal against the decision that ruled on the request in th…

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