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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Successive redundancies.

Article L1233-27

When a company or establishment usually employing at least fifty employees has made redundancies for economic reasons in the course of a calendar year involving more than eighteen employees in total,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Action by the administrative authority

Article D1233-11

The Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment sends the following documents to the employer: 1° The written notice referred to in article L. 1233-56, in the event…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions

Article R1233-15

An establishment within the meaning of Article L. 1233-57-9 is an economic entity subject to the obligation to set up an establishment social and economic committee. A closure within the meaning of ar…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article L3142-4

In order to implement the employee's right to leave as defined in article L. 3142-1, a company collective agreement or agreement or, failing that, an industry agreement or agreement determines the dur…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article R450-4

I.-The request for authorisation to disclose connection data referred to in the second paragraph of Article L. 450-3-3 specifies for each investigation: 1° The name of the person suspected of having t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Principles.

Article R232-44

A Scientific Steering Committee is set up within the Agency to assist it with scientific matters. To this end: 1° Each year, it proposes to the College at least one call for research projects relating…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Pre-project studies

Article D2171-6

The purpose of the preliminary design studies is to :1° Specify the general composition in terms of plan and volume;2° Assess the internal volumes and external appearance of the structure;3° Propose p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Provisions specific to certain agreements

Article 817 A

A Conseil d'Etat decree (1) sets the conditions for application of article 816, of II of article 816 A and Article 817, in particular the definition of partial contributions of assets, mergers or tran…

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In force

Article Annexe 8-1

CODE OF ETHICS FOR THE AUDIT PROFESSIONArticle 1This code defines the ethics to which the statutory auditor is subject in the exercise of his professional activity, whatever the nature of the engageme…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 133-1

In the cases provided for by articles 125,127and 133, when the person is detained by the police or gendarmerie before being brought before a magistrate, the public prosecutor for the place of arrest i…

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