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Showing 56215630 of 55089 articles for Art. CA Bordeaux 2-3-2022 n° 18/04413

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R711-36

Only territorial chambers of commerce and industry whose constituency corresponds to at least one département or, failing that, whose number of nationals measured by the economic survey referred to in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R711-37

The master plan may provide, in compliance with the conditions defined in Article R. 711-36, for the merger of territorial chambers of commerce and industry whose districts border each other but which…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R711-38

…ria set out in article R. 711-36 may be merged with a neighbouring chamber, or transformed into a local chamber of commerce and industry, by decree issued on the proposal of the minister responsible f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Pharmacy professions

Article R4422-2

…k II of this Part Four, in the version resulting from Decree No. 2022-381 of 16 March 2022, is applicable to Wallis and Futuna, subject to the following adaptations: 1° The words: "prefect of the depa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Deductions from apprenticeship tax

Article D6241-30

…conditions: 1° It is internal to the company ; 2° In which the company holds more than half of the capital within the meaning ofarticle L. 233-1 of the French Commercial Code or more than half of the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 322-9

…ject for the distribution media on which the game will be used and the target audience;4° The technical feasibility of the project.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article A160-3

The scale fixing the surrender value of the annuities referred to in Article A. 160-2 is that of the mathematical provisions established on the basis of the tables and interest rates set by Articles 1…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Recruitment by the user company at the end of an assignment.

Article L1251-38

…completed with this agency during the three months prior to recruitment is taken into account when calculating the employee's seniority.This time is deducted from any trial period provided for in the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3121-30

…annual quota give entitlement to compulsory time off in lieu. The hours taken into account for the calculation of the annual overtime quota are those worked in excess of the legal time limit. Overtim…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3121-31

…is greater than the legal weekly working time, the monthly remuneration due to the employee may be calculated by multiplying the hourly remuneration by fifty-two twelfths of this weekly working time,…

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