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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the freezing of assets and the prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L562-7

The prohibitions laid down in this chapter shall not prevent the payment of funds into accounts held with persons referred to in Article L. 561-2, whose funds are frozen pursuant to Articles L. 562-2,…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Powers of the advisory committees for the amicable settlement of disputes

Article R2197-4

…ing to contracts awarded by : 1° Local authorities, their groupings or their public establishments; 2° Decentralised State departments; 3° Departments and bodies with national jurisdiction when the co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 662

…s:1° When they do not give rise to the merged formality, the deeds referred to in 1 of article 635 ;2° The acts referred to in 1°, 5°, 7° and 7° bis of 2 of article 635 and in article 636 and generall…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Authorisation

Article R4461-35

…° The training organisation has not provided any training in the twelve months following its issue; 2° The training organisation has not provided any training for twelve consecutive months. However, t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose

Article D5134-1

The condition of employment provided for in 2° of article L. 5134-1 is assessed from the end of schooling and excluding periods of work completed under the following employment contracts: 1° Apprentic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article L123-30

…r by the decree mentioned in Article L. 123-31: 1° The deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 2° of Article 21 of the Code of Criminal Procedure; 2° Officials responsible for the control of mark…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Contract notices for contracts awarded in accordance with a formal procedure

Article R2131-16

…lletin officiel des annonces des marchés publics and in the Official Journal of the European Union; 2° Other purchasers publish a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Public holidays.

Article L3164-8

In sectors where this is justified by the particular characteristics of the activity, a list of which is set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, an agreement or an extended collective labour agreement or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Transfers

Article D3335-3

The company shall itself liquidate the sums blocked pursuant to 2° of article L. 3323-2 or article L. 3323-5 and shall immediately request the institution responsible for the register of accounts to l…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Staff.

Article R2324-36

…ablishment or service and covered by 1° of article R. 2324-42, or failing this, a person covered by 2° of the same article and with one year's professional experience working with young children. Purs…

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