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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6b: SME Innovation Account

Article L221-32-7

The institution with which an SME innovation account defined in Article L. 221-32-4 is opened shall keep, for each unit or share held in the securities account, as well as for the cash held in the cas…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: Equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article L221-32-1

…e first paragraph is also the holder of a plan referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 221-30, the total cash payments made into these two plans since they were opened may not exceed the limi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-3

…t with basic banking services opened in application of the procedure mentioned in III of article L. 312-1. Credit institutions shall offer natural persons who are not acting for professional purposes…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Principle of non-discrimination.

Article L1132-3-1

…e penalised, dismissed or subjected to any of the discriminatory measures mentioned in Article L. 1132-1 on account of performing the duties of a juror or citizen assessor.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Principle of non-discrimination.

Article L1132-3-2

…e penalised, dismissed or subjected to any of the discriminatory measures mentioned in Article L. 1132-1 for refusing, on the grounds of his or her sexual orientation, a geographical transfer to a cou…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-3-2

Where an extended branch agreement provides for and organises the continuation of employment contracts in the event of a succession of companies in the performance of a contract, the employees of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-3-1

Subject to the application of special legislative or regulatory provisions, when the activity of a public law legal entity employing non-tenured public law employees is taken over by a private law leg…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Paternity and childcare leave.

Article L1225-35-2

The period of paternity and childcare leave is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of determining the employee's seniority rights. The employee retains all the benefits he acquired bef…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment, transfer and dismissal.

Article L1225-4-3

No employer may terminate an employee's employment contract during the ten weeks following a medically certified spontaneous termination of pregnancy between the fourteenth and the twenty-first week o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Expert assistance

Article L1233-35-1

Before the request for validation or homologation provided for inArticle L. 1233-57-4 is sent, any dispute relating to the expert appraisal is sent to the administrative authority, which gives its dec…

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