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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-14

The employees' trade union organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level and those whose statutory vocation is of a national and cross-industry nature and which have recei…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Detection of business difficulties by the president of the court

Article R611-10

In the case provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 611-2 or where Article L. 611-2-1, the President of the Court shall have the Registrar summon the legal representative of the debtor legal…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial and accounting provisions

Article R822-15

The public establishment is subject to the provisions of Titles I and III of Decree No. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management, with the exception of 1° an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 3-2-1 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLE A. 321-1)

Article Annexe 3-2-1

ATTESTATION PROVIDED FOR BY ARTICLE R. 321-1-I (2°) OF THE CODE DE COMMERCE OPERATOR OF VOLUNTARY SALES OF FURNITURE AT PUBLIC AUCTION INCLUDING BY ELECTRONIC MEANS Individual I, the undersigned Born…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article R224-2

Each year, the manager of the retirement savings plan within the meaning of Article L. 224-8 provides the holder with: 1° Identification of the holder and, where the retirement savings plan is covered…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 15: Hospitalisation at home activity

Article R6123-141

I.-The home hospital care authorisation includes one or more of the following references: 1° "base"; 2° "rehabilitation"; 3° "ante- and post-partum"; 4° "children under the age of three". A home hospi…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation

Article A752-1

I.-The authorisation application form referred to in article R. 752-6-2, a model of which is attached to this order, bears the letterhead of the prefecture in whose jurisdiction the authorisation is r…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Single chapter.

Article L711-2

To satisfy the enforcement of a decision mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 700-1, the foreign national shall return to the country of which he is a national or any country, other than a Member Stat…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for exercising trade union rights in sports resource, expertise and performance centres

Article R114-67

The quotas of leave of absence and time off work mentioned in 1° and 2° of article 12 of the aforementioned decree of 3 April 1985 are calculated for each representative trade union organisation of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Entombment and closure of the coffin (R).

Article R2213-18

Without prejudice to the provisions of article R. 2213-2-1, the mayor may, if there is an emergency, taking into account the health risk or in the event of rapid decomposition of the body, after obtai…

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