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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-33

…orial jurisdiction of a single regional directorate for companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment are examined by this directorate.Applications from trade union organisations with a s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-34

An order issued by the Minister for Labour sets the period for the submission of candidacies and election propaganda documents by trade union organisations, as well as the model documents required for…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-35

…ions affiliated to the same trade union organisation at cross-industry level declare themselves as candidates under the name of that organisation alone. Trade unions other than those whose articles of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-37

The administrative authority responsible for examining the declaration of candidacy issues a receipt to the trade union organisation's representative by electronic means, provided that this declaratio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-39

Decisions concerning the validation of one or more candidacies may be contested by petition, on pain of inadmissibility, within fifteen days of the publication referred to in article R. 2122-38, befor…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Right of retention.

Article 378

In all cases where a blatant customs offence is detected, the means of transport and the contested goods that are not liable to confiscation may, as security for the penalties incurred, be withheld un…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Personal bankruptcy and other prohibition measures.

Article L653-3

I.-The court may declare the personal bankruptcy of any person mentioned in 1° of I of Article L. 653-1 , subject to the exceptions provided for in the last paragraph of I of the same article, against…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 386

If the effects and papers of accountants are sealed, the revenue and other registers for the current year must not be sealed. The said registers are simply stopped and initialled by the judge, who han…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 384

…stoms administration is granted by judgments against which an appeal is lodged, they shall only be handed over to those in whose favour the said judgments were rendered under good and sufficient secur…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 383

…cassation, unless those in whose favour the said judgments have been rendered have first given good and sufficient security for the sums awarded to them.

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