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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedures for ratifying agreements in companies with fewer than eleven employees

Article L2232-22-1

The procedures for revision and denunciation provided for in Article L. 2232-22 are applicable to collective agreements, regardless of the procedures for their conclusion, when the undertaking subsequ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-35

The articles of association of a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market may provide that the effects of any clause in an agreement entered into after 21 April 2004 providin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article L742-8

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, in the wording indicated in the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article L743-8

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, in the wording indicated in t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Exercise of control

Article L612-23

The Secretary General of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution organises off-site and on-site inspections. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall carry out inspectio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Article LO6271-5

The charges mentioned in article LO 6271-4 are compensated by the transfer of taxes, the global operating grant instituted by article L. 6264-3, the global grant for school construction and equipment…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Article LO6371-5

The charges mentioned in article LO 6371-4 are compensated by the transfer of taxes, the global operating grant instituted by article L. 6364-3, the global grant for school construction and equipment…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Traceability

Article L3512-26

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions for application of this chapter, in particular : 1° The model report referred to in Article L. 3512-7 ; 2° The conditions for application…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-46

…s capacity as home authority of an asset management company, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall forward a copy of the relevant cooperation arrangements it has entered into in accordance with Ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special financial provisions applicable to public health establishments in Mayotte

Article L6416-4

The total amount of the annual allocations paid by the Mayotte social security fund is financed, on the one hand, by the proceeds of the contribution to the Mayotte sickness and maternity insurance sc…

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