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Showing 76417650 of 65739 articles for Art. 384 and Cass. 1ère civ. 6-3-2013 n° 11-26.728 FS-PBI

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Termination by mutual agreement as part of a collective agreement on collective redundancy by mutual agreement

Article R*1237-6

The administrative authority referred to in articles L. 1237-19-3 to L. 1237-19-5, L. 1237-19-7 and L. 1237-19-8 is the regional director of companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Termination by mutual agreement as part of a collective agreement on collective redundancy by mutual agreement

Article R1237-6-1

…the jurisdiction of several Regional Directors of Enterprise, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment, the employer informs the Regional Director of the head office of the company of its…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Prevention of offences committed via the Internet

Article 67 D-9

…service, within the meaning of Article 3(g) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 referred to above, may ask the court seised pursuant to the se…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety

Article L1313-6-1

…ittee on the conditions of implementation of marketing authorisations for plant protection products and adjuvants mentioned inArticle L. 253-1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, biocidal p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Adaptation of laws and regulations by the overseas regions

Article LO4435-6-1

…eliberation provided for in the first paragraph of this article shall be sent to the Prime Minister and to the State representative in the region. Article LO 4435-5 shall apply to this deliberation. I…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article D47-6-16

…Enforcement Court is asked to pronounce or renew a judicial measure to prevent terrorist recidivism and reintegration, to order its release, to modify its obligations, or to confirm the resumption of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article D47-6-17

Applications by the person concerned by the judicial measure for the prevention of recidivism in terrorism or for reintegration to have the measure lifted or modified shall be the subject of a written…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences

Article R1412-1-6

…entioned in the second paragraph of article R. 1412-1-5. The number of ballot papers marked "woman" and the number marked "man" is determined so that the parity rule defined in III of article L. 1412-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Economic redundancies in the context of safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation.

Article L1233-60-1

In the event of receivership or compulsory liquidation, where the employer is considering modifying an essential element of the employment contract for one of the economic reasons set out in article L…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Professional card

Article R4311-41-6

…rofessional card, including in particular the conditions under which missing documents are required and translation obligations ; 2° The procedures for updating the electronic files of nurses holding…

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