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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Performance of the contract

Article L224-42-1

…g rules: 1° In the event of a delay in porting the number, the compensation offered to the consumer may not be less, per day of delay, than one-fifth of the monthly price, inclusive of all taxes, of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75

…profits and that of non-commercial profits earned by a farmer subject to an actual taxation system may be taken into account in determining agricultural profits when, in respect of the three calendar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 145-1

In criminal cases, pre-trial detention may not exceed four months if the person under investigation has not already been sentenced for an ordinary felony or misdemeanour either to a criminal penalty o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-14-4

…court provided for by the decree mentioned in I of article 706-2 of the code of criminal procedure may, at the request of the director of the testing department of the French Anti-Doping Agency, the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Parental presence leave.

Article L1225-62

…riod determined by decree, to parental presence leave.The number of days of leave that the employee may take as parental presence leave is a maximum of three hundred and ten working days. The employee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to public employers

Article L1251-60

Legal persons governed by public law may call upon the employees of these companies for non-permanent tasks, known as missions, in the following cases only: 1° Temporary replacement of a member of sta…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L1142-2

…tivities, are required to take out insurance to cover their civil or administrative liability which may be incurred due to damage suffered by third parties and resulting from personal injury, occurrin…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Monitoring and penalties.

Article L363-4

…taking puts an end to the irregular situation. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may also refer the matter to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority in accordanc…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cafés, public houses and pubs

Article D312-1

…s of sale defined in article R. 3323-2, the size of an advertising poster for an alcoholic beverage may not exceed 0.35 square metres. In the rooms of public houses, restaurants and hotels, billboards…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L526-35

Any member of a board of directors or, as the case may be, of a supervisory board and any person who, in any capacity whatsoever, participates in the direction or management of an electronic money ins…

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