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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Status of members, agents and employees of the agency

Article R232-24

…y :1° Are bound by professional secrecy and discretion under the conditions defined inarticle 26 of Law no. 83-634 of 13 July 1983, as amended, on the rights and obligations of civil servants;2° May n…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Clearing houses

Article L440-4

…ncial contracts, clearing houses may disclose information covered by professional secrecy where the laws or regulations of a State that is not a member of the European Union require such information t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-47

…eans the State in which the third-country firm has its registered office or, if, under its national law, it has no registered office, the State in which its effective management is exercised.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Ability to negotiate.

Article L2231-1

…e individual employers.Employers' associations constituted in accordance with the provisions of the law of 1st July 1901 relating to the contract of association, which are competent to negotiate agree…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Implementing provisions

Article L3121-68

…tions for recourse to standby duty and the arrangements for recovering lost working hours where the law allows such recovery may be derogated from by agreement or extended collective agreement or by c…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-60

When an employee is appointed as representative of an association governed by the law of 1st July 1901 relating to the contract of association or entered in the register of associations in application…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Combating the international spread of disease.

Article L3845-1

…rticle L. 3115-10 is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the version resulting from Law no. 2020-546 of 11 May 2020 extending the state of health emergency and supplementing its provis…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the insurance of vehicles in international traffic and certain other vehicles.

Article R*211-25

…ntees the settlement, waives its immunity from jurisdiction and accepts the application of national law and the jurisdiction of the French courts.A decree shall lay down the detailed rules for the app…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R322-7

…of the amounts paid to the persons mentioned, as the case may be, in article 101 or 143 of the said law by way of remuneration or commission for insurance or capitalisation contracts taken out through…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Mutual insurance companies.

Article R322-106

Surplus income may be distributed only after the reserves prescribed by the laws and regulations in force have been set up, after any loans taken out have been repaid and after the regulatory provisio…

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