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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the different election methods

Article R4311-57-1

Votes may be cast by post or electronically.

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Subscription and purchase of shares by employees.

Article L225-197-1

…or in I, the provisions of this article and, in particular, the aforementioned periods, for their remaining term on the date of the exchange, remain applicable to the allotment rights and shares recei…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Annual consultation on company social policy, working conditions and employment

Article L2312-26

…ration and organisation of working hours, the period of paid leave provided for in Articles L. 3141-13 to L. 3141-16, the conditions of application of the adjustments to working hours provided for in…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R1413-1

…cessary for the development of health promotion, prevention and health education throughout France; 13° Contributes to the preparation and management of crisis situations and the implementation of pla…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-9

Collective shops of independent traders already created through a legal person may, by way of adaptation or transformation, be placed under the regime provided for by this chapter. Any member may, by…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Procedures and penalties

Article L343-5

…anding down the sentence, under the conditions and subject to the penalties provided for in Article 131-35 of the Penal Code.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Design Litigation

Article L521-11

…broadcasting of the judgment pronouncing the sentence, under the conditions provided for in Article 131-35 of the Penal Code.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L132-8

The cessation of the misleading commercial practice may be ordered by the investigating judge or by the court hearing the case, either at the request of the public prosecutor or ex officio. The measur…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Interpreters and translators

Article L141-3

Where the provisions of this code stipulate that information or a decision must be communicated to a foreign national in a language that he understands, this information may be provided either by mean…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Experimentation

Article LO1113-1

The law which authorises, on the basis of the fourth paragraph of Article 72 of the Constitution, the territorial authorities to derogate, on an experimental basis, from the legislative provisions gov…

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