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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter

Article L230-2

…ng Code referred to in the International Convention against Doping in Sport, adopted in Paris on 19 October 2005;4° An organisation responsible for a major international sporting event that is a signa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Supplementary provisions

Article L3141-23

…inuous fraction of at least twelve working days is allocated during the period from 1st May to 31st October of each year; 2° The fractioning of leave beyond the twelfth day is carried out under the fo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions on the valuation of prudential technical provisions

Article R351-9

…accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 31 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2015/35 of 10 October 2014; 2° Inflation, including that affecting expenses and claims; 3° All payment…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L151-2

…thorities. The Corsican regional authority replaces the tourist offices and agency from 1st January 2003, unless the Assembly of Corsica decides otherwise. The territorial collectivity of Corsica may…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VIII: European companies

Article L322-28

…section, the société européenne shall be governed by the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE), by the provisions of Chapter…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-135

…he cases referred to in Article 25(6) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the public prosecutor to whom the investigation has been referred refuses to relinquis…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose and award conditions

Article 821-3

…he period referred to in article 821-1 must first submit electronically, between 1 September and 31 October 2021, a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée containing a des…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Injunctions to perform

Article L238-3-1

…"SE" in their company name in breach of the provisions of Article 11 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE) to change that company name.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Expenditure by communes and groups of communes for municipal secondary and special education establishments (R).

Article D2321-14

…f an agreement reached between the local authorities and groupings of communes concerned before 1st November, the costs for the following year are apportioned under the following conditions: - for 80%…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Powers and funding of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee

Article R1432-70-1

…nditions set out in article 63 and the second paragraph of article 93 of decree no. 2020-1427 of 20 November 2020 relating to administrative social committees in State administrations and public estab…

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