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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions applicable to all employer groups

Article L1253-24

An employers' group is eligible for public aid for employment and vocational training from which its member companies would have benefited if they had directly recruited the people made available to t…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Contract content

Article L2312-2

For the purposes of the first paragraph of Article L. 2112-3, the life cycle of equipment is understood to mean all the successive states it may undergo, including research and development, industrial…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions

Article 750

Claims may also be made by application where the amount of the claim does not exceed It may also be brought by application where the amount of the claim does not exceed 5,000 euros in ordinary oral pr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Specific legacies.

Article 1015

The interest or fruits of the thing bequeathed shall accrue to the benefit of the legatee, from the day of death, and without his having made his claim in court: 1° Where the testator has expressly de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Exercise of the right of appeal

Article 501

When the court rules on an application for release in accordance with articles 148-1 and 148-2 as well as when it rules on an application to release or modify a judicial supervision order or house arr…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 9: Organisation of training leading to qualifications in physical and sporting activities in a specific environment

Article A212-175-11

The list referred to in article R. 212-8 includes establishments that implement the general clauses of the specifications provided for in annex II-21 as well as the specific clauses provided for in th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisational rules.

Article L4132-5

…by the national council from among the members of that council on the one hand and the members and former members of the councils of the ordre on the other. The Chamber sits as a panel of at least fi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4371-3

The diplomas, certificates or degrees referred to in article L. 4371-2 are those appearing on a list drawn up by the ministers responsible for health and higher education. The training procedures, con…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Special commercial courts.

Article L732-5

Judgments of the mixed commercial courts are rendered, except where provisions provide for a single judge, by a panel comprising, in addition to the president, three judges elected or appointed under…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation and operation.

Article L722-2

Where the Commercial Court rules in matters of safeguarding, judicial recovery or liquidation, judicial settlement or liquidation of assets, the panel of judges shall include, subject to the applicati…

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