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Showing 27412750 of 3862 articles for Art. 20 October 1999

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-10-5-2

…nterprise may conclude open-ended contracts as referred to in article D. 5132-10-5 up to a limit of 20% of the number of full-time integration workstations set out in the agreement. By way of derogati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-26-11

…ociation may conclude open-ended contracts as referred to in article D. 5132-26-9, up to a limit of 20% of the number of full-time integration workstations set out in the agreement. By way of derogati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-21

…representative departmental emergency medical transport association referred to in article R. 6312-20 and after obtaining the opinion of the medical transport sub-committee, the Director General of t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Special provisions relating to certain uses of orphan works

Article L135-1

…se collections or which were produced by public service broadcasting organisations before 1 January 2003 and form part of their archives. The fact that an organisation mentioned in a and b makes a wor…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Prevention of offences committed via the Internet

Article 67 D-7

…m a person providing an intermediary service, within the meaning of Article 3(g) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 referred to above. These…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1526-8

…titled on his behalf, after deduction of the benefits listed inarticle 3 of Order no. 92-1146 of 12 October 1992 extending and adapting thelaw to the territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1544-7

…or his or her heirs, after deduction of the benefits listed in article 3 of Order no. 92-1146 of 12 October 1992 extending and adapting the law to the territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia an…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic foreign promotion account

Article 721-23

…producer(s).Only contracts for the acquisition of foreign exploitation rights signed on or after 1 October 2016 will be taken into account.The sums may be invested no later than one year after the fi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Recourse in the event of non-acceptance and non-payment.

Article L511-40

…ayment of the bill of exchange within the period provided for in article 41 of the decree-law of 30 October 1935 unifying the law on cheques and relating to payment cards. The protest in the absence o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Related agents

Article L773-35

…of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 545-1 to L. 545-5 Order no. 2016-827 of 23 June 2016 L. 545-5-1 Act no. 2010-1249 of 22 October 2010 L. 545-6Order no. 2007-544…

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