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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-22

…grant one of the measures provided for in Articles 712-6 and 712-7, the sentence enforcement courts may in the same judgment, at the request of the convicted person, relieve him or her in whole or in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation of payment institutions

Article L522-10-1

…on by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. Without prejudice to the penalties that may be imposed by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in the event of failure to co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-13

…ion by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.Without prejudice to the penalties that may be imposed by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in the event of failure to co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L3711-3

…elating to medical confidentiality. If the coordinating doctor is unavailable, the attending doctor may inform the sentence enforcement judge directly of the refusal or interruption of treatment again…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Prevention of business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures

Article L611-8

…itors.III. - When the president of the court establishes the agreement or the court approves it, he may, at the request of the debtor, appoint the conciliator as an agent for the execution of the agre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Simplified judicial liquidation.

Article L644-4

…ticle L. 643-8, the completed statement shall only be filed with the registry. Any interested party may examine the statement and, with the exception of the liquidator, lodge a complaint with the offi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article L662-4

Any dismissal envisaged by the administrator, the employer or the liquidator, as the case may be, of the employees' representative mentioned in articles L. 621-4 and L. 641-1 must be submitted to the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Allocation of the special profit-sharing reserve.

Article L3324-5

…imits of individual allocation ceilings determined by decree. However, the profit-sharing agreement may decide that this allocation between beneficiaries is uniform, proportional to the length of time…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Control by the administrative authority.

Article L3345-4

…hin a period and under conditions determined by decree. The period mentioned in the first paragraph may not exceed four months. It may be extended once for a period equivalent to half the initial peri…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Share categories

Article L6313-4

…order to define a professional project and, where appropriate, a training project. This assessment may only be carried out with the employee's consent. An employee's refusal to consent shall not cons…

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