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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: The share savings plan.

Article D221-111-1

…s the form of a capitalisation contract, for contract management, may not exceed an annual sum of 0.4% of the value of the securities held or, respectively, of the surrender value of the contract, and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Revenue

Article D71-112-1

…'outre-mer ; 3° Le titre III du livre III de la quatrième partie relatif aux recettes des régions ; 4° Le chapitre IV du titre III du livre IV de la quatrième partie relatif aux recettes des régions d…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures

Article R23-112-12

For each regional cross-industry joint committee, the organisation mentioned in article R. 23-112-1 appoints an agent to declare to the competent regional directorate for companies, competition, consu…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D71-111-8

…cross presentation, by function or by nature, provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 71-111-4 is carried out between the finest level of the functional nomenclature and each of the three-d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article A822-28-11

…ork. Applying these rules enables the statutory auditor to fulfil the duties of his profession. >. 04. In his or her personal life, the statutory auditor shall refrain from any action contrary to hono…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D71-114-12

…tive account, on which the local authority is called to deliberate in accordance with article L. 71-111-9, presents by separate column and in the order of the chapters and articles of the budget:In re…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Implementing provisions

Article L23-115-1

…edures for the presentation of the employees on the electoral propaganda mentioned in article L. 23-112-2 ; 2° The procedures for the notification to the employers of the employees mentioned in the la…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the family court

Article 373-2-11

…388-1 ; 3° The ability of each parent to assume their duties and respect the rights of the other ; 4° The results of any expert appraisals that may have been carried out, taking into account in parti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-11-1

…of their family or by the trusted support person they have designated in application of article L. 1111-6 of this Code, for the duration of the outing; 2° In the form of unaccompanied outings lasting…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-117-1

…containing one or more of the critically important antibiotic substances mentioned in article L. 5144-1-1 is reserved for metaphylactic and curative treatments. Veterinarians will only prescribe meta…

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