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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Duties of the social and economic committee in undertakings with at least eleven employees and fewer than fifty employees

Article R2312-2

Investigations by the social and economic committee or, where applicable, the health, safety and working conditions committee in the event of accidents at work or occupational or work-related illnesse…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation of committees

Article R2522-18

Before conciliation boards, the parties may be assisted by a member of the employers' or employees' professional organisation to which they belong. When the parties are represented, the representative…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Agreements between regional health agencies and complementary health insurance organisations

Article R1434-28

The commitments of one or more supplementary health insurance organisations defined as part of the regional multi-annual plan for risk management and efficiency in the healthcare system, as well as co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 6: Suspension of the procedure for examining applications for business authorisations provided for in article L. 752-1-2

Article R752-29-8

Three months before the end of the suspension period, the secretariat of the departmental committee asks the petitioner to send it, within two months, an update of the information contained in the app…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Maximum number of apprentices

Article R6223-8

For a given professional branch, an interministerial order, issued after consultation with the national professional advisory committee competent for the branch in question, may set ceilings for simul…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Pre-assessment and request for treatment

Article R6323-11

The request for support of a professional transition project is sent by the employee to the regional inter-professional joint committee responsible for his main place of residence or to the committee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Remuneration

Article R7124-34

The authorisation given to the child's legal representatives, pursuant to article L. 7124-9, to make exceptional emergency deductions from the child's savings may be withdrawn at any time if it appear…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-21-1

…he thresholds defining small and medium-sized enterprises provided for in Article 2 of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and me…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L132-3

…so-called half-account contract. With this type of contract, the author or his successors in title commission a publisher to produce, at the publisher's expense and in number, copies of the work or t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Procedures and penalties

Article L343-5

…merce the articles found to be infringing and any thing that served or was intended to serve in the commission of the offence. The court may order the destruction at the expense of the convicted perso…

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