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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-16

Officers are empowered to carry out controls:of animal feed and foodstuffs excluding products of animal origin originating in or coming from third countries;of materials and objects intended to come i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3141-8

Employees under the age of 21 on 30 April of the previous year are entitled to two extra days' leave for each dependent child. This leave is reduced to one day if the statutory leave does not exceed s…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R322-5

…ate control under article L. 310-1 and constituted in the form of a société anonyme must have share capital, excluding contributions in kind, of at least 800,000 euros in order to conduct the classes…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R712-26

The conditions for submitting the application and the contents of the file shall be specified by decision of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property, in particular as reg…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article LO6413-5

…VI (chapitre IV du titre Ier et titre II) ;2° Cinquième partie : livres IV, VI et VII.For the application of these provisions to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon:- the reference to the départements, the regi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Job security contract

Article D1233-50

…e financing of the measures provided for in article L. 1233-65, the skills operators respond to the calls for projects mentioned in article R. 6332-106 in order to receive financing from the joint fun…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to professional non-trading companies

Article R814-135

…its decision by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. Within six months of this notification, the company is required to notify the shareholder, in the same manner, of either a proposed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5122-1

…3 and R. 5122-8, the words: "Traditional herbal medicinal product to be used", followed by the indications to be specified, themselves followed by the words: "solely on the basis of long-standing use…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Nomination and election of members

Article R7111-24

…ates for the employers' representatives is appointed on behalf of private-sector audiovisual communication companies by the professional organisations representing these companies. In the event of dis…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Local tax on outdoor advertising

Article L2333-8

…ion taken before 1 July of the year preceding that of taxation and relating to one or more of these categories, totally exempt or allow a 50% reduction: - signs, other than those fixed to the ground,…

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