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Showing 49314940 of 49367 articles for Art. Cass. com. 6 June 1990 · Cass. com. 3 June 2014 · Cass. 1re civ. 8 January 2002

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Job search.

Article L5411-6

…in defining and updating the personalised employment access project referred to in article L. 5411-6-1, to carry out positive and repeated acts of job-seeking and to accept reasonable offers of emplo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Constitution

Article R6332-63

…s for non-salaried persons employed and self-employed in maritime fishing and marine farming: 1° R. 6332-5, relating to the appointment of the provisional administrator ; 2° R. 6332-12, relating to th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Recovery of undue benefits.

Article L5426-8-1

For the reimbursement of allowances, grants and any other benefits unduly paid by Pôle emploi, on its own behalf, on behalf of the State or the employers mentioned in Article L. 5424-1, Pôle emploi ma…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Rights guaranteed to detained foreign nationals

Article L813-6

…y, at his or her request, consult the report drawn up pursuant to the first paragraph of article L. 813-13 as well as the medical certificate, if any, appended thereto. The lawyer may make written obs…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2 : Communal share of excise duty on electricity

Article D2333-6

For the application of the provisions of article L. 5212-24, the tax administration department competent to receive the concordant deliberations of the legal assignees of the communal share of the exc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of health monitoring and health safety in the regions

Article R1413-61

…ings together: 1° Representatives of the National Public Health Agency referred to in Article L. 1413-1 and, where applicable, of the Biomedicine Agency referred to in Article L. 1418-1 of the same co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention service responsible for joint monitoring of this worker's state of health

Article D4624-61

…rovided by the worker's employers, whether the worker meets the conditions laid down in Article D. 4624-59. Where necessary, the employer may ask his worker to inform him of the conclusion of other em…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-6

In the case of a management lease of a business or company in the trades and crafts sector registered in the national register of companies, the lessor is the sole member of the group or company. A pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-62

The Articles of Association determine the term of office of the Management Board, which may be between two and six years. In the absence of a provision in the Articles of Association, the term of offi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 900-6

Third-party proceedings against the judgment granting the application for revision are admissible only in the event of fraud attributable to the donee or legatee. The revocation or reversal of the con…

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