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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of good conduct and organisation

Article L548-6

Participative finance intermediaries must behave honestly, fairly, transparently and professionally, taking into account the rights and interests of their clients, including potential clients. To this…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Application requirements

Article L1441-6

Subject to the provisions of Article L. 1441-7, the following may stand for election: 1° Employees and employers ; 2° Job seekers registered on the list of job seekers; 3° Persons who have ceased all…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of elections.

Article L2314-6

In the absence of legislative provisions to the contrary, the validity of the pre-electoral agreement concluded between the employer and the trade union organisations concerned is subject to its signa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Establishment of social and economic committees and works councils

Article L2313-6

The loss of the status of separate establishment in the cases provided for in articles L. 2313-2 to L. 2313-5 entails the termination of the duties of the members of the staff delegation of the social…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Public policy

Article L2242-6

Collective company agreements on actual salaries may only be filed with the administrative authority, under the conditions set out in article L. 2231-6, if accompanied by a report on the opening of ne…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L432-6

The body referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 432-2 also manages and issues, under the supervision of, on behalf of and in the name of the State, the guarantees provided for in article 119…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article L742-6

I.-Article L. 214-1 is applicable in New Caledonia, in the version resulting fromOrder no. 2013-676 of 25 July 2013, subject to the following adaptations: 1° In 1°, the words: "in accordance with Dire…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Criteria for ordering redundancies.

Article L1233-6

The criteria set out in the collective bargaining agreement or, failing that, in the employer's decision, cannot establish a priority for dismissal solely on the basis of the lifetime benefits enjoyed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Bodies

Article L5212-6

The trade union committee is set up in accordance with the rules laid down in articles L. 5211-7, L. 5211-8 and, unless otherwise provided for in the founding decision, in article L. 5212-7.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Duties of the social and economic committee in undertakings with at least eleven employees and fewer than fifty employees

Article L2312-6

The powers of the staff delegation to the social and economic committee are exercised for the benefit of employees, as well as :1° Employees within the meaning of article L. 4111-5, in matters of heal…

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