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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Initial registrations

Article R521-9

…or transfers of goodwill include pledged trademarks or service marks, industrial designs or models and software exploitation rights and where the pledges of such goodwill include patents for inventio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Minority rights

Article 388-1-2

…her legal administrator(s), to perform alone the acts of administration necessary for the creation and management of an individual limited liability company or a single-member company. Acts of dispos…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Anti-competitive practices.

Article L420-2-1

The following are prohibited in communities falling under Article 73 of the Constitution and in the overseas collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Wallis-et-Fu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: National plan for the prevention of environmental health risks

Article R1310-1

…vironment after examining the joint proposals of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and the Regional Director for the Environment, Planning and Housing. For matters falling within the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article L2316-6

…l colleges, but where several separate establishments together group together at least five hundred and one employees or at least twenty-five members of staff belonging to the category of engineers, h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article L2316-5

…onstitute three electoral colleges in application of article L. 2314-11, at least one full delegate and one alternate delegate to the central social and economic committee belong to the category of en…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article L2316-7

…ive trade union organisation in the company appoints a representative to the central company social and economic committee chosen either from among the representatives of this organisation on the esta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Compulsory expenditure

Article L2321-2

Compulsory expenditure includes in particular: 1° The upkeep of the town hall or, if the municipality does not own one, the rental of a house or hall to take its place; 2° Office and printing costs fo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Councils for culture, education and the environment (R).

Article R4432-5

The council for culture, education and the environment of the Guadeloupe region comprises twenty-five members including:1° Eight representatives of bodies involved in the cultural life of the region;2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Councils for culture, education and the environment (R).

Article R4432-8

…this code determine, for each region, the bodies represented on the council for culture, education and the environment, as well as the number and procedures for appointing their representatives.

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