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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Energy

Article L2224-31

…he provisions of article 23 of law no. 46-628 of 8 April 1946 on the nationalisation of electricity and gas, local and regional authorities or their public cooperation establishments, as licensing aut…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Mediation

Article R513-3

The association ensures that its members comply with the obligation to offer their customers recourse to a consumer mediator, in accordance with the first paragraph of article L. 612-1 of the French C…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Guarantees granted in the exercise of the mandate.

Article R4135-3

The provisions of articles R. 4135-1 and R. 4135-2 are applicable, where they do not benefit from more favourable provisions, to civil servants governed by Titles I to IV of the general civil service…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Transferred services.

Article R4422-32

…1098 of 11 October 1985 relating to the assumption of responsibility by the State, the departments and the regions for the personnel, operating and equipment costs of the services placed under their…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local semi-public companies

Article L1862-3

I.-By decision of their deliberative body, the communes of French Polynesia and their groupings may acquire shares or receive, as a fee, contribution shares issued by a semi-public company created by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employees working the same shift pattern

Article D3171-3

Any change to the collective timetable will be posted under the same conditions.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Traceability

Article R3512-31

…laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/574 of 15 December 2017 on technical standards for the establishment and operation of a system for the traceability of tobacco products.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-3

The time required for dressing and undressing, when the wearing of working clothes is required by law, collective bargaining agreements, internal regulations or the employment contract and when dressi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Supplementary provisions

Article R3121-3

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in article L. 3121-11, the employer communicates, by any means giving a date certain, to the employees concerned the individual scheduling of on-call per…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Commission nationale de la négociation collective, de l'emploi et de la formation professionnelle (National Commission for Collective Bargaining, Employment and Vocational Training)

Article R2272-3

The full representatives of the employers are appointed by the Minister of Labour as follows: 1° Two nominated by the Mouvement des entreprises de France (MEDEF); 2° Two nominated by the Confédération…

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