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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-38

…al quota mentioned in the same article L. 3121-30 for companies with no more than twenty employees, and at 100% of these same hours for companies with more than twenty employees. For the application o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-36

In the absence of an agreement, overtime worked in excess of the legal weekly working hours set out in article L. 3121-27 or the working hours considered to be equivalent give rise to an increase in p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-39

…a decree determines the annual quota defined in article L. 3121-30 as well as the characteristics and conditions for taking the compulsory compensatory rest for any overtime worked in excess of this…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-37

…s well as any additional pay, with an equivalent compensatory rest period, provided that the social and economic committee, if there is one, does not object.The employer may also adapt the conditions…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-35

…lated in an agreement referred to in Article L. 3121-32, the working week begins at 00.00 on Monday and ends at 24.00 on Sunday.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duties levied

Article D3512-16-3

The public establishment mentioned in article L. 3512-15 may commission approved laboratories to carry out the analyses mentioned in the same article.The costs of these analyses shall be borne by the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Traffic

Article 307

…provided for national trade in application of 4° of article L. 311-39 of the code of taxes on goods and services. These documents are only discharged when the said appliances or portions of appliances…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
3. Holidays.

Article R6152-35-3

…he internal structure. However, annual leave not taken as a result of the leave mentioned in 4°, 5° and 6° of article R. 6152-35 and in article R. 6152-41 is carried over, up to a limit of twenty days…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Shareholdings in companies

Article L2573-37

…e applicable to the communes of French Polynesia from the renewal of the municipal councils in 2008 and subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III.II. - For the application of article L. 22…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Right of settlement.

Article 350

…s authorised to settle with persons prosecuted for customs offences or for infringement of the laws and regulations relating to financial relations with foreign countries, subject to the application o…

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