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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Minimum working hours and overtime

Article L3123-28

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 3123-20, the number of overtime hours worked by a part-time employee during the same week or month or over the period provided for by a col…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Guarantee undertaking

Article R7123-28

The guarantee commitment is the subject of a written contract specifying the conditions and the amount of the guarantee granted as well as the terms and conditions of the accounting control that the g…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Agreements

Article R5132-28

The agreement signed to set up one or more integration workshops and work camps includes in particular : 1° A presentation of the integration project of the approved organisation, specifying : a) The…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Ceremony of reception into French citizenship

Article 21-28

The representative of the State in the department or, in Paris, the police prefect organises, within six months of acquiring French nationality, a ceremony to welcome into French citizenship for the p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Duties of sworn goods brokers

Article L131-28

Sworn merchandise brokers are competent, unless the court appoints a judicial auctioneer or another public officer, to conduct the following public sales: 1° Wholesale sales of goods authorised or ord…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L1333-28

The person responsible or his successor for a nuclear activity or a past or present professional activity likely to cause, directly or indirectly, exposure of persons to ionising radiation or to emiss…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 6: Financial guarantee.

Article R211-28

The financial guarantee provided by a credit institution or an insurance company is only accepted if this institution or company has its head office in the territory of a Member State of the European…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-28

The supplementary protection certificate is invalid:-if the patent to which it relates is invalid;-if the patent to which it relates is invalid for all those parts of it corresponding to the marketing…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Economic intervention

Article L4424-28

The Corsican regional authority may participate, through the payment of endowments, in the constitution of an investment fund with a private equity company whose purpose is to provide equity capital t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Ethics and prevention of conflicts of interest

Article R1313-28

The Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Committee has between five and eight members. These members are appointed for a period of five years by order of the ministers responsible on the recommendation of…

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