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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of secondment.

Article L1262-3

An employer may not rely on the provisions applicable to the secondment of employees when, in the State in which it is established, it carries out activities relating solely to internal or administrat…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: Solvency Capital Requirement

Article L352-3

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, by reasoned decision, impose an additional capital requirement on insurance and reinsurance undertakings in any of the following exceptiona…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of distributors

Article L213-31

The obligations resulting from article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of distributors

Article L213-30

The contract for the transfer of exploitation rights or the marketing mandate contract includes a clause recalling the obligations resulting from article…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 1: The enforcement judge

Article L121-3

The enforcement judge has the power to order the debtor to pay damages in the event of abusive resistance.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-3

Where two patent applications are filed successively by the same inventor or his successor in title within a period of not more than twelve months, the applicant may request that the second applicatio…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition and scope

Article L315-3

The life mortgage loan and the transfer advance loan cannot be used to finance the needs of a professional activity.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction and powers

Article L532-3

The Cour nationale du droit d'asile may only annul a decision of the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides and refer the examination of the asylum application back to it when it cons…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Voluntary departure period

Article L612-3

The risk referred to in 3° of article L. 612-2 may be regarded as established, except in special circumstances, in the following cases:1° The foreign national, who cannot justify having entered French…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative expulsion decisions

Article L722-3

The administrative authority may initiate the procedure for automatic enforcement of the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory as soon as the period for voluntary departure has exp…

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