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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Public training establishments

Article D112-3

…y exercise their powers under the conditions set out in Chapter I of Title I of Book II. II - The local public training establishments in the fields of sport, youth and popular education are the centr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Compulsory licences and expropriation for national defence purposes

Article R613-34

The request sent by the Minister of Defence to the Minister responsible for industrial property with a view to obtaining, pursuant to Article L. 613-19, an ex officio licence for national defence requ…

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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 Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure applicable to requests for disclosure or production of documents

Article R153-3

…party to the proceedings who invokes the protection of business secrecy for a document whose communication or production is requested shall provide the judge, within the time limit set by the judge: 1…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 4: Pre-trial detention

Article D32-31

…seventh and ninth paragraphs of article 145, the liberty and custody judge orders the provisional incarceration of the person under investigation with a view to a deferred hearing, either of his own m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Dismissal of fewer than ten employees within a thirty-day period

Article D1233-3

…blishment; 3° The surname, first names, nationality, date of birth, gender, address, job and qualifications of the employee(s) made redundant; 4° The date of notification of the redundancies to the em…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: General provisions.

Article L1142-3

…eding, as provided for in articles L. 1225-30 to L. 1225-33; 4° Resignation by an employee in a medically certified state of pregnancy, as provided for in article L. 1225-34; 5° Paternity leave and ch…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter: General provisions

Article L3611-3

…and L. 3334-2 and in tobacco shops.It is also prohibited to sell and distribute any product specifically intended to facilitate the extraction of nitrous oxide in order to obtain psychoactive effects…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L5451-3

…with the procedures laid down in Article 131-38 of the French Penal Code: 1° (Repealed) ; 2° Confiscation of the thing that was used or intended to be used to commit the offence or of the thing that…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of parental authority by separated parents

Article 373-2

…will apportion travel expenses and adjust the amount of the contribution to the maintenance and education of the child accordingly.

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