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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Start-up grant for self-employed activity

Article D5213-58

The self-employed occupation is chosen from one of the branches determined by order of the Minister for Employment on the advice of the Ministers for Industry, the Economy, Trade and Craft Trades, and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Start-up grant for self-employed activity

Article D5213-59

To qualify for the start-up grant, the disabled worker must undertake to personally run the self-employed business and to personally practise the liberal profession for which the grant is requested.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Start-up grant for self-employed activity

Article D5213-56

Payment of the grant is subject to the conclusion of an agreement specifying its purpose and the terms and conditions of control exercised by the public authority.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Start-up grant for self-employed activity

Article R5213-52

Disabled people who are referred to the labour market by the Commission des droits et de l'autonomie des personnes handicapées (Commission for the Rights and Independence of Disabled People) and who w…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Start-up grant for self-employed activity

Article D5213-57

The subsidy is allocated to the purchase or installation of the equipment needed to practise the self-employed profession to which the disabled worker has been referred by the Commission des droits et…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Statistical monitoring of validation of prior learning

Article R6423-5

…for admissibility to the additional checks provided for in the sixth paragraph of II ofarticle L. 335-5 of the Education Code or in the third paragraph ofarticle L. 613-4 of the same code. At regional…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-5-1

I. - Unless otherwise stipulated, the new commune or, through concordant deliberations of principle taken in the year preceding that of its creation, the communes and, where applicable, the public est…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Accelerated procedure

Article L531-27

…in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, concerning the establishment of Eurodac for the comparison of fingerprints for the effect…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 6: Provisions applicable in the event of a paperless challenge to fixed fines as provided for in Article 529-10

Article A37-20-5

In all cases, an acknowledgement of registration of the challenge is automatically presented to the person when they have validated and sent their challenge. This document can be downloaded or printed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sale and transfer of shares.

Article R6223-27

…etween the parties, the transfer price is set by an expert under the conditions set out inArticle 1843-4 of the Civil Code. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten. If the transferring sharehol…

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