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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: The Higher Council for Mountain Sports

Article D142-30

…he permanent secretariat. The Chairman of the Board of Governors and the Chairmen of the Committees may call on any person with expertise in the matters under discussion, in an advisory capacity. The…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions specific to hazardous substances and mixtures.

Article L1342-3

…pter, in particular the persons who have access to the information declared pursuant to Article L. 1342-1, the conditions under which the confidentiality with regard to third parties of information co…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfers between supplementary occupational pension funds

Article L384-3

Supplementary occupational pension funds may be authorised, under the conditions defined in Article L. 324-1, to transfer all or part of their portfolio of contracts to one or more supplementary occup…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Formation of the credit agreement

Article L313-34

…ance by the borrower and the guarantors, natural persons, declared. The borrower and the guarantors may not accept the offer until ten days after they have received it. Acceptance is given by letter,…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction and powers

Article L532-3

The Cour nationale du droit d'asile may only annul a decision of the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides and refer the examination of the asylum application back to it when it cons…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Group agreements.

Article L2232-32

…nion organisations at the level of all the undertakings included in the perimeter of this agreement may appoint one or more group trade union coordinators chosen from among the trade union delegates o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Cross-border mergers

Article L236-38

Notwithstanding article L. 223-30, the articles of limited liability companies may not provide for a majority of more than 90% of the votes of the shareholders present or represented to decide on a cr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure applicable to the interoperability of technological measures

Article R331-39

The rapporteur may ask the holder of the rights to the technical measure or, in the case provided for in the second paragraph of Article R. 331-38, the applicant, to provide him, within a period of te…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Compulsory licences and expropriation for national defence purposes

Article R613-36

…gement of receipt, his claims as to the remuneration of the licence granted to the State.The matter may not be referred to the judicial court with a view to fixing the amount of the remuneration, purs…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Implementation within the company.

Article L3322-3

…the agreement is applied continuously during this period. At this date, a profit-sharing agreement may be concluded under the conditions of article L. 3324-2 on a basis of calculation and distributio…

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