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Showing 44214430 of 21704 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 11 Mar. 2008 – no. 07-10.590

French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Compensation for severe disability

Article R5213-40

…nnual contribution and allocating the employment aid provided for in articles L. 5212-9 and L. 5213-11 is to compensate for the severe disability of a person covered by the employment obligation. The…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personnel

Article R5323-1

…e general conditions of employment and recruitment of personnel mentioned in 14° of article R. 5322-11 sets the compensation for on-call duty. This decision also determines, for each job category, the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the opening of a branch and the exercise of the freedom to provide services by undertakings governed by the Insurance Code, the Mutual Insurance Code and the Social Security Code

Article R321-32

…business under the freedom to provide services, in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 321-11, shall notify its plans to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, together with th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single section: Sale of products without packaging

Article D120-7

…s intended for particular nutritional uses in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 of Decree No. 91-827 of 29 August 1991 on foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses ;4° Feed materia…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 775

Bulletin no. 2 is the record of the criminal records applicable to the same person, excluding those concerning the following decisions: 1° Convictions, convictions with an exemption from sentence or a…

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

Article L414-10

…ing in mainland France confers on him/her, subject to the exceptions provided for in article L. 414-11, the right to carry out a professional activity, in that same territory, within the framework of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Semi-public companies

Article L122-12

…in their previous legal status. The provisions of articles L. 122-3, L. 122-5, L. 122-10 and L. 122-11 are applicable to them.

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter 3: Provisions relating to Mayotte.

Article L443-1

Articles L. 412-2, L. 422-3, L. 422-4 and L. 422-11 are applicable to Mayotte, subject to the conditions set out below. For the application of article L. 422-3,article L. 2333-34 of the General Local…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article L611-14

…the art. If the state of the art includes documents mentioned in the third paragraph of Article L. 611-11, they are not taken into consideration when assessing inventive step.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Electoral colleges.

Article L2314-16

Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles L. 2314-11 and L. 2314-12, in temporary employment undertakings, the distribution of seats may be the subject of a pre-electoral agreement, concluded in…

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