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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Article D8255-1

…opposition to the planned action; 2° The trade union organisation may itself take recourse action; 3° The employee may always intervene in the proceedings initiated by the trade union organisation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Central bodies

Article R6147-5-2

…members of the Local Nursing, Rehabilitation and Medico-Technical Care Commissions provided for in 3° of Article R. 6147-6. Each of the three colleges of each local commission appoints from among its…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter X: Digital asset service providers

Article L54-10-5

…ion of the Autorité des marchés financiers; 2° Adequate security and internal control arrangements; 3° A resilient and secure IT system; 4° A system for managing conflicts of interest. They provide th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article R2224-23

…t Code;2° "Household waste": household waste as defined in article R. 541-8 of the Environment Code;3°"Assimilated waste": waste collected by the public waste management service whose producer is not…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for maintaining sites

Article R6222-5

I.-When one or more medical biology laboratory sites created before the revision of the regional health plan or before the change in the delimitation of the zones defined in b of 2° of Article L. 1434…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 38

…rs' equity at the time of a merger or demerger without exchange of securities within the meaning of 3° of II of article L. 236-3 of the Commercial Code are also deducted from the net profit determined…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article R612-3-2

The applicant may request in writing that his provisional application comply with the requirements of Article R. 612-3or its conversion into a utility certificate application referred to in the first…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Spouse and child of a foreign national holding long-term resident status - EU in another Member State of the European Union

Article L426-14

For the application of articles L. 426-12 and L. 426-13, all the applicant's own resources and, where applicable, those of his or her spouse or parent, are taken into account, independently of the fam…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Forfeiture rules

Article L518-24

Subject to III of articles L. 312-20 of this Code, L. 132-27-2 of the Insurance Code and L. 223-25-4 of the Mutual Code, sums deposited in any capacity whatsoever with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consign…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article A713-1

…e R. 713-2;2° To be used to send the instruments required for voting mentioned in Article R. 713-14;3° To be used as a basis for the counting of votes when the ballot is counted.II. - The electoral li…

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