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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Principle of advance payment

Article R2391-1

The purchaser shall grant an advance payment to the holder of a contract when the initial amount of the contract is greater than 250,000 euros excluding tax and insofar as the performance period is gr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Economic interest groupings.

Article L251-5

…tions may only result from a breach of the mandatory provisions of this chapter, or from one of the causes of nullity of contracts in general. An action for nullity is extinguished when the cause of n…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: GENERAL CONTRACT CONDITIONS

Article D211-4

The general terms and conditions applicable to contracts mentioned in the third paragraph of article L. 224-25-12 include a box informing consumers of the procedures for implementing the legal guarant…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title VII: Provisions specific to the Cour de cassation.

Article 1014

…asoned decision where the appeal is inadmissible or where it is manifestly not such as to result in cassation. A panel may also decide not to reply in a specially reasoned decision to one or more plea…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IV: Obligations and contracts.

Article 1382

…ents in civil and commercial matters designates the courts of a Member State without further specification, the court with territorial jurisdiction is that of the place where the or one of the defenda…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title III: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation, exchange of information and supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L634-3

…2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic life are applicable to any natural person who has reported in good faith to the Autorité des marchés financiers or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Association employment vouchers and company service vouchers

Article D1272-4

…ed in accordance with articles L. 1221-1 to L. 1221-5 and articles L. 1242-12 to L. 1242-13, in the case of a fixed-term employment contract, or article L. 3123-6, in the case of a part-time employmen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article R2224-22-3

…s;2° An assessment of the uses to which the water is put or may be put from this structure;3° Verification that the distribution network for water from another resource is not connected to the public…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article R3124-4

…nt the compensation provided for in articles L. 3121-9, L. 3121-11 and L. 3121-12 inthe event of on-call duty is punishable by a fourth-class fine. Failure to give each employee concerned, or to keep…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Safeguard measures

Article R4314-13

…withdrawn from the market or its placing on the market made subject to special conditions. In such cases, a notice in the Official Journal of the French Republic specifies the equipment concerned and…

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