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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Payment in Treasury securities or claims on the State

Article 1716 A

…ive à l'indemnisation des rapatriés d'outre-mer dépossédés de leurs biens et de la loi n° 87-549 du 16 juillet 1987 modifiée relative au règlement de l'indemnisation des rapatriés, une créance sur l'E…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-39

Where the publishing company or the company controlling it, within the meaning of article L. 233-16 of the French Commercial Code, publishes several press titles, a company agreement may provide for t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Nordic cross-country skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192-5

…ant fails, he may not take the second test. The content of the aptitude test is set out in Annex II-16-5.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Organisation and operation

Article R823-10

…liberations of the Board of Directors relating to the objects mentioned in 6°, 7°, 8°, 10°, 11° and 16° of article R. 823-7 are enforceable only after they have been approved by the Minister for Indus…

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

Article R611-14

…ph of II of article L. 611-2 as well as article R. 611-15 and the first paragraph of article R. 611-16. If the letter is returned with a note stating that it has not been claimed by its addressee, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article D49-82

…est under electronic surveillance are those provided for by articles R. 57-10 to R. 57-14 and R. 57-16 to R. 57-18 of this Code, and R. 622-1, R. 622-2, R. 622-4, R. 622-6, R. 622-7, R. 622-8, R. 622-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reports

Article D4622-54

…al health and prevention service draws up the annual activity report referred to in article L. 4622-16, which is presented to the inter-company committee or to the control commission and to the board…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4-3

…ntioned in I of Article D. 5422-4 with the information mentioned in Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, as well as the information relating to the limitations of their rights prov…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-30

…of the Labour Code, as a member of the employee representation body referred to in article L. 2352-16 of the same code or as a member of a committee of the European Company mentioned in l'article L.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-129-6

…129-2. This article is not applicable to controlled companies within the meaning of article L. 233-16 of this code when the general meeting of the company that controls them has decided on or authori…

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