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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Complaints

Article R4163-39

The commission issues a reasoned opinion on the basis of a file comprising: 1° The employee's claim and the employer's rejection decision or, in the event of implicit rejection, the acknowledgement of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Dissolution and liquidation of the company.

Article R743-116

For the application of article R. 743-79, if the successors of members who die in the case provided for in Article R. 743-67, or the partners in the other cases of dissolution of the company with the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation

Article R4422-22

When it receives a request formulated in application of the first paragraph of article R. 4422-16, the Economic, Social, Environmental and Cultural Council may appoint a rapporteur to present its opin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article R4514-1

The social and economic committees of the user undertaking and of the external undertakings are informed: 1° Of the date of the prior joint inspection by the managers of the undertakings concerned, as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Administration.

Article R4113-44

Apart from the cases provided for byarticle 19 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies and by articles R. 4113-45, R. 4113-49 and R. 4113-79 imposing speci…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Unused medicinal products for human use.

Article R4211-24

Producers contribute to or provide for the collection of unused medicines and, where applicable, their packaging, under the conditions set out in I of article L. 541-10 of the Environmental Code. They…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article D4364-17

An orthopaedic surgeon, a chiropodist-orthotist, an ocularist, an epithesist or an orthopaedic surgeon-orthotist may be registered in only one department or only in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. In the ev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Dissolution and liquidation of the company

Article R6223-90

In the event of dissolution, a liquidator shall be chosen from among the members. Under no circumstances may the duties of liquidator be entrusted to a partner who has been subject to a disciplinary s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Pledging of business assets.

Article L142-4

In the event of receivership or compulsory liquidation, articles L. 632-1 to L. 632-4 are applicable to pledges of goodwill.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Approval and exclusion.

Article L125-13

The approval clause is not enforceable in the event of a compulsory sale of the shares, whether or not they have been pledged.

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