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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Dematerialised service

Article R5132-1-19

The "Plateforme de l'Inclusion" public interest grouping provides a teleservice for completing procedures relating to integration through economic activity.The purpose of the processing of personal da…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Periods of work experience.

Article D5132-10-1

The agreement referred to in article L. 5132-2 may provide for the signatory integration enterprise to set up periods of work experience for its employees recruited under contracts concluded in applic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Steering Committee

Article D5521-7

The Steering Committee is informed at each of its meetings: 1° By the Minister responsible for the fight against exclusion, of the situation in terms of integration, poverty and precariousness in Guad…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Establishments manufacturing, importing or distributing medicated feed.

Article R5142-57

In establishments authorised to manufacture and import medicated feed, the following information is recorded:1° The date of manufacture, import, transfer or issue as appropriate and, if manufacture ha…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Performance of the contract

Article L224-42-1

Electronic communications service providers shall compensate consumers in the following cases and in accordance with the following rules: 1° In the event of a delay in porting the number, the compensa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Non-voting preference shares.

Article L228-35-4

Priority dividend shares without voting rights entitle their holders to a priority dividend deducted from the distributable profit for the year before any other appropriation. If it appears that the p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor guarantees

Article L322-6

Subject to the provisions of Articles L. 322-7 to L. 322-10, the Deposit Guarantee and Resolution Fund manages the investor guarantee mechanism instituted by Article L. 322-5. Articles L. 312-5, L. 31…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Manual changers

Article L572-1

Any person, acting either on their own behalf or on behalf of a legal entity, who disregards one of the prohibitions set out in article L. 524-4 shall be liable to two years' imprisonment and a fine o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-5

Articles L. 3132-25 and L. 3132-25-1 do not apply to food retailers who benefit from the provisions of article L. 3132-13. Food retail outlets located in the areas referred to in article L. 3132-24 or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions.

Article L4344-5

The unauthorised use of the title of speech and language therapist or orthoptist or of a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications legally required for the practice of these prof…

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