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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Allocation de professionnalisation et de solidarité et allocation de fin de droits.

Article D5424-54

The excesses provided for in the annexes mentioned in I of article D. 5424-51 are applicable to the end-of-rights allowance. At the end of the period of compensation under this allowance, any remainin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Allocation de professionnalisation et de solidarité et allocation de fin de droits.

Article D5424-58

The daily amount of the end-of-rights allowance is set at 30 euros.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and terms of the contract

Article D6114-5

The contract identifies the intensive care units, the continuous monitoring units referred to in article R. 6123-38 and the paediatric continuous monitoring units referred to in article R. 6123-38-7 a…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Relations between lessors and lessees of buildings used for the hotel trade

Article L311-5

Disputes relating to the application of this section shall be decided in accordance with Articles L. 145-56 to L. 145-60 of the French Commercial Code. Disputes relating to the performance of the work…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Criminal penalties

Article L341-57

…grants a life mortgage without making a prior offer to the borrower in accordance with article L. 315-9 or under conditions that do not comply with articles L. 315-10 and L. 315-11, is punishable by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reporting requirements for therapeutic education programmes

Article R1161-5

…shall order that it no longer be implemented. The programme coordinator has thirty days from notification of this decision to declare the programme or to stop implementing it. The Director General of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Control by the administrative authority

Article D3345-5

The depositories of the agreements and regulations mentioned in Article D. 2231-5 are the Departmental Directors of Employment, Labour and Solidarity, the Departmental Directors of Employment, Labour,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions adapting Book VII.

Article L917-5

For the application of Article L. 712-7, the words: ", in particular those mentioned in 2° of Article L. 711-8," are deleted.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Commercial events.

Article R762-5

The operator of a registered exhibition centre shall send, for each calendar year, the declaration of the annual programme of commercial events as defined in article R. 762-4 held in its park, to the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2a: Farm-saved seed

Article R623-59

I.-Species, other than those listed in Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights, for which farmers have the right, pursuant to Article L. 623-24-1, to use o…

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