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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Agreements to prevent the effects of exposure to certain occupational risk factors

Article L4162-1

I.-Employers with at least fifty employees, including the companies and public establishments mentioned in articles L. 2211-1 and L. 2233-1 employing at least fifty employees, as well as companies bel…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding.

Article L4152-1

…because of their condition, present risks to their health or safety. These categories of work are determined by regulation.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Prevention of business difficulties.

Article R612-1

…1, are required to draw up annual accounts and to appoint at least one statutory auditor and one alternate auditor when, at the end of the calendar year or at the close of the financial year, they ex…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: The network of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Article R712-1

…charge status does not prevent the allocation of allowances or reimbursement of expenses, the list, terms and amounts of which are set by the internal regulations of the chamber of commerce and indust…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article D524-1

…ange by the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2, other than those referred to in 1°, 1° bis, 1° ter, 5° and 7° of Article L. 561-2, where the sum of their currency purchase and sale transactions d…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Title I: PURPOSE AND SCOPE

Article 110-1

In accordance with articles…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-12

…decree in the Conseil d'Etat. In the context of legal proceedings, these persons must also be registered on a list of legal experts.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions concerning monitoring, controls and investigations

Article R632-1-1-A

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers shall communicate, on their own initiative, to the competent authorities of another Member State of the Eur…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: The procedure for adjudicating a continuing dispute

Article 1563

…r who assisted him during the contractual procedure, as the case may be, by notification or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.Before the judicial court, the filing of this document…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: The procedure for adjudicating a continuing dispute

Article 1564

Where the application has been lodged at the registry of the judicial court, the notification referred to in the third paragraph of Article 1563 states that the opposing party must constitute a lawyer…

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