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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article L3122-15

…3122-3;3° Compensation in the form of compensatory rest and, where appropriate, in the form of pay;4° Measures to improve employees' working conditions;5° Measures to make it easier for these same em…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to certain overseas collectivities

Article L3512-27

For the application of sections 1 to 5 of this chapter, in the collectivities governed by Article 73 of the Constitution, in Saint-Martin, in Saint-Barthélemy and in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 1° The w…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Portfolio transfers between a supplementary occupational pension fund and an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R370-9

…and rights attached to these commitments and a list of the corresponding assets or their valuation; 4° The name and location of the registered office of the supplementary occupational pension fund and…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Investment for the preparation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-73

…ng to the period during which these personnel were actually employed on the preparation of the work;4° Location scouting expenditure;5° Expenditure on the design, development and modelling of characte…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Pre-production aid

Article 322-16

…ed assets created or acquired as new and allocated directly to the pre-production of the video game;4° Other operating expenses, for the portion allocated to the pre-production of the video game. Thes…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Invitation to selected candidates

Article R2344-10

…a competitive dialogue, the date and place of the dialogue and the language or languages authorised;4° The list of documents to be supplied;5° The weighting or ranking of the criteria for the award of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-14

The operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction mentioned in Article L. 321-4 are liable to the seller and the buyer for the representation of the price and the delivery of the goods f…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Withholding

Article R335-18

…e and address of all persons who attended the destruction; 3° The type of goods and their quantity; 4° The reference or references of the report of the detention; 5° The date of the express or tacit a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Training of lenders and intermediaries

Article D314-23

Lenders and credit intermediaries shall ensure that the staff defined in article D. 314-22 fulfil the conditions of professional competence resulting from: 1° Either a diploma mentioned in the agreeme…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Reporting obligations

Article 982

I.-1. Taxpayers shall mention the gross value and the net taxable value of the assets mentioned in article 965 on the annual declaration provided for in article 170. They attach to this declaration sc…

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