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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for exercising trade union rights in sports resource, expertise and performance centres

Article R114-66

…d representative within the meaning of articles 3, 3-1 and 5 of the aforementioned decree of 28 May 1982, on the one hand the trade union organisations with at least one seat on the social committee o…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Allocation of sums held in the automatic online broadcast account

Article 612-15

The sums entered in the automatic online broadcasting account are invested in order to contribute to the following expenses directly allocated to online broadcasting, excluding the publisher's own ope…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Special cases

Article 695-41

When the requested person is arrested, seizure shall be carried out, at the request of the judicial authority of the issuing Member State or on the initiative of the executing judicial authority, in t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-40

…ench Government has obtained the extradition of a person pursuant to the Convention of 27 September 1996 relating to Extradition between the Member States of the European Union, the person thus extrad…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3431-6

…munerated. The development council includes representatives from the economic, social, cultural, educational, scientific, environmental and associative sectors of the territory of the Alsace European…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Resolution of groups for which the collège de résolution is the consolidated resolution authority

Article L613-60

…er resolution authority of a decision and measures equivalent to those mentioned in I of Article L. 613-61-1 concerning the subsidiary of a group for which it is the resolution authority on a consolid…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Credit for hours worked

Article R2123-6

Given the requirements of the public education service, the weekly service of staff belonging to teaching bodies or job categories who benefit from a credit of hours in accordance with Article L. 2123…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Practice of the profession by the company.

Article R822-62

…any shareholder or partner sentenced to a disciplinary or criminal sanction of temporary disqualification for a period equal to or greater than three months, shall be obliged, by the unanimous decisi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sale and transfer of shares.

Article R4113-60

…t registry to be placed in the file opened in the name of the company. Where the transferor, in the case provided for in article R. 4113-51, has refused to sign the deed, a copy of the summons issued…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Opinion of the college and compensation offer

Article R1142-63-31

…ders responsible all the documents provided by the claimant to enable them to draw up an offer. Medical information is transmitted in compliance with medical confidentiality.The offer referred to in t…

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