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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Contracts between a performer and a phonogram producer

Article L212-11

…Any clause which tends to confer the right to exploit the performer's performance in a form which cannot be foreseen or which has not been foreseen at the date of signature is express and stipulates…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Application to the armed forces health service

Article R1233-11

…ependently of the authorisation provided for in article R. 1233-2, health establishments wishing to carry out organ procurement as referred to in the second paragraph of article R. 1232-4-1, shall def…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Deconcentrated services

Article R8122-11

…on has been entrusted, in a section, to a labour inspector, the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment : 1° Designates one or more labour inspectors to take de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D5217-10

…ross presentation, by function or by nature, provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 5217-10-5 is made between the most detailed level of the functional nomenclature and each of the accounts…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Filing of amending deeds.

Article R123-107

The filing provided for in the first paragraph of article R. 123-105 includes for joint-stock companies and non-trading companies formed by public offering: 1° A copy of the minutes of the general mee…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Commission de conciliation et d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales.

Article R1142-10

The Commission's secretariat is placed under the functional authority of the Chairman. It is provided by staff seconded by the Office. The Commission adopts internal rules in accordance with standard…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Procedure in the event of an appeal

Article 712-11

…by the sentenced person, by the public prosecutor and by the public prosecutor, as from their notification: 1° Within a period of twenty-four hours in the case of the orders mentioned in articles 712-…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1148-2

…for in article 388-1 of the Civil Code, the court may be seised in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 1088 to 1092. The spouses may also, until the divorce agreement is filed with a n…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financing of the insurance allowance.

Article L5422-11

…provided in their own homes; 3° Contracts entered into by natural persons to work as approved childcare assistants.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Principles and means of prevention

Article R4412-111

…level of dust for the duration of the operation and, in any event, in accordance with the level indicated in the document provided for in Article R. 4412-99. An order of the Minister responsible for w…

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