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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Professional equality between women and men and quality of life and working conditions

Article L2242-17

The annual negotiations on professional equality between women and men and the quality of life and working conditions cover : 1° The balance between personal and professional life for employees ; 2° T…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-12-4

…However, when the liberty and custody judge orders the release of a psychiatric care measure in the form of full hospitalisation or establishes the release of this measure, the public prosecutor may a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Common provisions

Article L312-16

…signing of a payment undertaking and the provision of appropriate guarantees, in particular in the form of cash deposits made in the fund's books;6° The conditions for the intervention of the fonds d…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Invoices

Article 289

…specific and unequivocal manner is treated in the same way as an invoice. It must include all the information specified in II.II. - A Conseil d'Etat decree sets out the compulsory information that mus…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article A132-9-2

…1 does not apply to the beneficiary, the notice sent by the contracting party to the beneficiary informing him of his right to irrevocably opt for the delivery of securities, units or shares under th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Transfer of powers.

Article L5215-22

I. - When some of the communes of a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate form part of an urban community, through the creation of this community, through the merger of public establishments of i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Notice of payment of the fixed parking charge

Article R2333-120-4

…ocedures and disputes": 1° The first part of the payment notice includes, in order, the following information: a) The name of the commune, public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or mixed…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Job security contract

Article L1233-67

…the beneficiary may use the personal training account mentioned in article L. 6323-1. During the performance of the Contrat de Securisation Professionnelle, the employee is placed under the status of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Medical applications

Article L1333-19

…vered to patients and through to the delivery of the results of this procedure.II.-Professionals performing radiodiagnostic, radiotherapy or nuclear medicine procedures for the purposes of medical dia…

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

Article 498-1

For a judgment sentencing a person to a fixed term of imprisonment or a term of imprisonment suspended in part, handed down under the conditions provided for in article 410 and which has not been serv…

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