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Showing 23012310 of 69024 articles for Art. L. 221-8 + Art. R. 221-30 à R. 221-37

French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Beneficiaries of subsidiary protection

Article R424-8

The resident card bearing the wording "long-term resident-EU", provided for in article L. 424-14, issued to a foreign national who benefits from subsidiary protection, bears the following wording unde…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-8

…representative or by the person chosen on the basis of the first paragraph of II or III of Article L. 812-2.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Duties towards colleagues

Article R4312-82

…tion, commission, fee-splitting and customer misappropriation, subject to the provisions of article L. 4312-15 relating to nurses practising jointly and receiving a fixed fee per patient.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Submission of the contract

Article R6224-8

When a minor apprentice is employed by an ascendant, the declaration provided for in article L. 6222-5, signed by the ascendant employer, is signed by the apprentice and stamped by the director of the…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Provisions specific to framework agreements, dynamic purchasing systems and innovation partnerships

Article R2121-8

For the framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems defined in Article L. 2125-1, the estimated value of the requirement is determined by taking into account the estimated maximum value of all…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Detention of asylum seekers and transmission of their application to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPP)

Article R754-8

…ed against the decisions to keep persons in detention referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 754-3 shall obey the rules defined in Chapter VII bis of Title VII of Book VII of the Code of Adm…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Insurance and bonding of sworn commodity brokers

Article R131-8

…specifying the name of the credit institution with which the account provided for in 1° of article L. 131-15 as well as the number of this account, the amount and duration of the guarantee granted an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Informing the person entered in the file

Article R53-8-11

…the public prosecutor in accordance with the procedures described in the third paragraph of Article R. 53-8-9. The document provided for in the penultimate paragraph of article R. 53-8-9 is given or s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article R441-8

I.-The administrative authority referred to in I of Article L. 441-15 within whose territorial jurisdiction the applicant has established its registered office or place of business is: 1° The Regional…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Skills assessment

Article R6313-8

…skills assessment is carried out as part of the skills development plan mentioned in 1° of article L. 6312-1 or as part of redeployment leave under the conditions set out in article L. 1233-71, it is…

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