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Showing 48914900 of 42635 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 20-3-1969 n° 67-12.546

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Updating data

Article R8295-3

The employer or, where applicable, the user undertaking of a temporary employee on secondment shall inform the union of funds mentioned in article R. 8291-2 within twenty-four hours of any change rela…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishment of parentage by recognition

Article 316-1

Where there are serious indications, based where applicable on the civil registrar's hearing of the person who acknowledged the child, that the acknowledgement is fraudulent, the civil registrar shall…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Civil solidarity pacts

Article 515-3

Persons who enter into a civil solidarity pact make a joint declaration thereof before the civil registrar of the commune in which they fix their common residence or, in the event of serious impedimen…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article R234-3

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Reorganisation measures for companies whose registered office is located in a Member State of the European Union

Article R*323-11

When it decides to implement one of the reorganisation measures defined in Article L. 323-8, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution : 1° As a matter of urgency, inform the competent auth…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Special provisions relating to investment in leisure property.

Article D421-3

The procedures for applying the tax reductions granted for work carried out on certain housing belonging to tourist residences, residential tourist villages or intended for rental as furnished accommo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R370-3

The balance sheet value of the shares and units referred to in 6°, 7° to 7°c of Article R. 332-2 and of any other security not admitted to trading on a regulated market may not exceed 30% of the dispe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: College of employees

Article R1441-3

For the employees' college, the determination of the number of seats for each section of each of the industrial tribunals of the department mentioned in article L. 1441-4 takes into account the votes…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Freedom of establishment

Article R1132-3

The following are laid down by order of the Minister for Health:1° The composition of the file submitted in support of the application for authorisation ;2° The composition of the aptitude test panel…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 13: Work in confined spaces

Article D4153-34

I. - It is forbidden to assign young people : 1° inspecting, maintaining and cleaning the inside of tanks, cisterns, basins and reservoirs ; 2° Work involving operations in a confined environment, in…

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