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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee inventions

Article R611-9

…is procedure is optional for the interventions referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 611-7.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 9: Services accessible via electronic communications operators

Article D224-20

…responsible for combating cybercrime and electronic communications operators, within the meaning of 7° of Article L. 32 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title VII: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in a Member State of the European Community or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area other than France

Article A370-3

For the application of article L. 370-3, the provisions governing the activity of the institution and which are indicated to the competent authorities of the State concerned are those, legislative and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Principles.

Article L4622-6-1

…including occupational health and prevention services other than those mentioned in Article L. 4622-7, is approved by the administrative authority for a period of five years, with a view to ensuring i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: National Statutory Committee

Article L6156-6

…ecialties according to their nature and number of staff. The decree provided for in article L. 6156-7 specifies the powers, composition and operation of the national statutory commission, in particula…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Deliberations

Article L7122-14

…s are then valid regardless of the number of those present.Subject to the provisions of articles L. 7123-1, L. 7123-5 and L. 7123-7, the decisions of the Assembly are taken by a majority of the votes…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Basic banking services

Article L721-17

In the local authorities referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 721-7, for the basic banking services referred to in III of article L. 312-1, credit institutions may not charge more than the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R214-97

…nt may not hold more than 20% of the same category of financial instruments mentioned in 4°, 6° and 7° of the I of article L. 214-36 and in article R. 214-93 of the same entity. For the assessment of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-16

…issue a new opinion. The claim is investigated under the conditions set out in articles R. 1142-63-7 to R. 1142-63-14, without however the need to investigate again whether the claimant can prove a f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Loans taken out and guarantees granted by the network's establishments.

Article R712-31

The authorisation of the acts mentioned in 2° of Article R. 712-7 is valid for a period of one year from the date of approval of the deliberations relating to these acts. At the end of this period, if…

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