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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Suspension or termination of the agreement

Article R5123-37

…Suspension does not extend the term of the agreement. However, the authority signing the agreement may, after assessing the seriousness of the company's breaches, its situation and the new commitment…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Help with professional integration

Article R5134-33

The maximum duration of twenty-four months of work integration assistance may, for the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 5134-23-1, be extended to sixty months by successive exten…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Compliance with the Code of Ethics

Article R8124-32

…ce to the powers of the ethics officer provided for in article 28 bis of the aforementioned Act of 13 July 1983, employees involved in labour inspection activities may refer to the Conseil national de…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Special contribution

Article R8253-3

…ns enabling the date of receipt by the addressee to be proven, that the provisions of article L. 8253-1 are likely to be applied to him and that he may submit his observations within a period of fifte…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Energy

Article L2224-37

Subject to a non-existent, insufficient or inadequate offer on their territory, municipalities may create and maintain charging infrastructures necessary for the use of electric or rechargeable hybrid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 186-3

The accused and the prosecution may appeal against the orders provided for in the first paragraph of Article 179 where they consider that the acts referred to the criminal court constitute a crime tha…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Administrative fines.

Article L1264-3

…peated within two years of the date of notification of the first fine. The total amount of the fine may not exceed €500,000. To set the amount of the fine, the administrative authority takes into acco…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives and means of intervention

Article L412-3

The Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may, under conditions determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, call upon auditors, chartered accountants or other persons or bodie…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for residential or business premises

Article L412-3

The judge may grant renewable deadlines to occupants of inhabited premises or business premises whose eviction has been ordered by the court, whenever the persons concerned cannot be rehoused under no…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Equity securities

Article L228-36

…or a limited liability company, public limited companies for low-cost housing mentioned in the L. 423-1-1 of the same code may issue non-voting securities. These securities are redeemable only in the…

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