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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: National Sports Agency

Article L112-11

…provided for inArticle 113 of the aforementionedLaw no. 2011-525 of 17 May 2011, the Agency's resources come mainly from the proceeds of the assigned taxes mentioned in the first paragraph ofArticle 1…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Safety at sporting events

Article L332-3

The act of introducing or attempting to introduce by force or fraud into a sports venue, during the staging or public broadcasting of a sporting event, alcoholic beverages within the meaning of articl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: End of the research period

Article L1233-57-21

…bility to avoid redundancies or to limit the number of redundancies by selling the establishment concerned by the closure project, as attested by the reports mentioned in articles L. 1233-57-17 and L.…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R211-1

…in the transactions referred to in Article L. 211-1, subject to the provisions of the second sentence of III, IV and V of this Article and the provisions of Articles L. 211-7 and L. 211-17-3 relating…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation to operate as an operator

Article L212-2

Persons whose activity is to operate a cinema must hold a licence granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. Any person whose purpose is to organise travelling fil…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-13

…s section and any other file or collection of nominative data held by any person or by a State service not under the authority of the Ministry of Justice, with the exception of the file of persons sou…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Status of members, agents and employees of the agency

Article R232-23

…7 of law no. 84-16 of 11 January 1984 on the statutory provisions relating to the State civil service.Each contract concluded between the agency and one of its employees specifies whether the employe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Trade union delegate, mandated employee, employee adviser and member of the staff delegation of the inter-company social and economic committee

Article L2421-2

The procedure provided for in this sub-section also applies to an employee who holds one of the following offices: 1° Member of the board or director of a social security fund mentioned in article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3821-11

…una Islands in the version resulting from Law no. 2022-1089 of 30 July 2022 putting an end to the exceptional regimes created to combat the epidemic linked to covid-19, subject to the adaptations prov…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Penalties.

Article R328-1

…e of article L. 310-1 or 1° of III of article L. 310-1-1 is liable to a fine for a fifth-class offence:1° Disregarding the obligations or prohibitions resulting from articles R. 321-17-1, R. 321-28, R…

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