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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Job search.

Article L5411-6-3

The personalised employment access project is updated periodically. When it is updated, the elements making up the reasonable job offer are revised, in particular to increase the prospects of a return…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Mandate

Article L722-6-3

Any candidate elected to the office of commercial court judge who finds himself in one of the cases of incompatibility mentioned in articles L. 722-6-1 and L. 722-6-2 may not take office until he has…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-6

The amount of the additional cost incurred by the interruption, postponement or abandonment referred to in article 913-5, borne by the delegated production company, is determined by the expert appoint…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Specific procedures

Article 899

Article 706-9 shall read as follows: "Art. 706-9.-The President shall take into account in the amount of the sums awarded to the victim as compensation for his loss :benefits listed in II of Article 1…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-2

I. - Where the feeder UCITS and the master UCITS do not have the same depositary, the depositaries of each of these two bodies shall enter into an information exchange agreement in order to ensure the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-6-5

For the sole purpose of detecting illegal employment offences committed via electronic communications for which they are competent, the labour inspection officers mentioned in article L. 8112-1 and sp…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Beverages.

Article L3351-6-1

Selling alcoholic beverages at a fuel sales outlet outside the hours specified in the fourth paragraph of article L. 3322-9 or selling refrigerated alcoholic beverages there is punishable by a fine of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Advertising.

Article R322-87

The extract must contain the name adopted by the company and an indication of the registered office, the designation of the persons authorised to manage, administer and sign for the company, and, in a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Advertising.

Article R322-85

Within one month of the incorporation of any mutual insurance company, a copy of the memorandum of association, its appendices and a certified copy of the resolutions adopted by the general meeting pr…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Common provisions

Article L455-2

Sont considérés, au regard de la récidive, comme une même infraction, les délits prévus et réprimés par:1° Les articles L. 121-2 à L. 121-4 et L. 132-2, les articles L. 122-1 to L. 122-5 and L. 132-25…

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