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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional platform organisations

Article L7343-21

For the purposes of this Chapter, the following shall be deemed to be professional organisations representing the platforms referred to in Article L. 7342-1 : 1° The professional trade unions referred…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Powers of investigation.

Article L450-2-1

The documents drawn up by the agents referred to in Article L. 450-1 may be drawn up or converted into digital format and may be stored in their entirety in this form, in secure conditions, without th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contributions and allowances

Article L5424-21

Workers who are unemployed and who have exhausted their unemployment insurance rights under the specific provisions relating to performing artists and to workers and technicians in sound recording, fi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-21-1

Where the court considers that the sale of all or part of the business is conceivable, it shall appoint an administrator, if one has not already been appointed, to take all necessary steps to prepare…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-2-11

A professional athlete who participates freely, on his own behalf, in a sporting competition is presumed not to be bound to the organiser of the competition by a contract of employment. The presumptio…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Compensation procedures.

Article L211-22

The provisions of articles L. 211-9, L. 211-10 and L. 211-13 to L. 211-19 are applicable to the fonds de garantie des assurances obligatoires de dommages instituted by article L. 421-1, in its dealing…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Cosmetic products.

Article L5431-2

The following is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000: 1° For any person who manufactures or packages cosmetic products, to open or operate an establishment for the manufacture…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L2146-2

Failure by an employer to comply with the provisions of articles L. 2141-5 to L. 2141-8, relating to trade union discrimination, is punishable by a fine of 3,750 euros. A repeat offence is punishable…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consumer mediation assessment and monitoring committee

Article L615-2

If a mediator does not meet the conditions required by this Title, the Commission d'évaluation et de contrôle de la médiation de la consommation shall refuse to include him on the list provided for by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Placement and support for jobseekers.

Article L5312-12-2

Pôle emploi will give an explicit decision on any request from an employer concerning one of its corporate officers or a person holding a corporate office whose purpose is to determine whether he or s…

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