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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Definition of the economic reason.

Article L1233-3

A redundancy for economic reasons is a redundancy carried out by an employer for one or more reasons not inherent in the person of the employee, resulting from the elimination or transformation of a j…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Provisions relating to the analysis of resolvability

Article L311-12

I.-When, at the end of the assessment provided for in Article L. 311-11, the resolution college finds that there are significant obstacles to a person mentioned in Article L. 311-5 being subject eithe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to carry out doorstep selling

Article L341-3

Only the following may use or engage in the activity of banking or financial canvassing, within the limits of the specific provisions governing them: 1° Credit institutions or finance companies as def…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 768

The automated national criminal record, which may include one or more processing centres, is kept under the authority of the Minister of Justice. It receives, as far as persons born in France are conc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical devices and other products and articles regulated in the interests of public health.

Article L5522-2

For application in the Wallis and Futuna Islands:1° Of Articles L. 5211-1, L. 5211-3-1, L. 5212-2, L. 5221-1, L. 5221-4 and L. 5222-3, the provisions relating to the use of the European database on me…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Establishment in France of persons authorised to conduct voluntary sales of furniture by public auction in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R321-65

Nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area are deemed to have the qualification required to manage voluntary sales of furnitur…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R3115-26

I. - The master of a vessel who observes a risk to public health on board immediately informs the competent regional surveillance and rescue operational centre when the vessel is at sea or the harbour…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Powers

Article LO6314-3

I.-The collectivity shall lay down the rules applicable in the following matters: 1° Taxes, duties and fees under the conditions set out in Article LO 6314-4; land registry; 2° Road traffic and road t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-33

If a member has been struck off, pursuant to section 5 of this chapter, for a period of six months or more, he may be excluded from the company by a decision taken by a majority of the other members.…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 9: Opinion procedure provided for in Article L. 532-4

Article R532-69

A refugee to whom one of the measures provided for in articles 31, 32 and 33 of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 has been applied may lodge an application with the Cour nationale du droit d'asile…

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