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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-21

Approval makes the provisions of the agreement binding on all employers and employees within the professional and territorial scope of the agreement.Approval is granted for the duration of the agreeme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-23

Where the agreement provided for in article L. 5422-20 has not been signed by all the representative employers' and employees' organisations, the Prime Minister may approve it in accordance with a pro…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-22

To be approved, the agreements mentioned in article L. 5422-20 must have been negotiated and concluded at national and cross-industry level between representative employers' and employees' organisatio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-24

I.-The resources mentioned in articles L. 5422-9, L. 5422-11 and L. 5424-20 finance, for the portion defined by the agreement mentioned in article L. 5422-20 and which may not be less than 10% of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-3

For the application of articles L. 1226-15, L. 1234-9, L. 1235-3, L. 1235-3-1, L. 1235-11 and L. 1235-16 of the Labour Code, the determination of the indemnity payable by the employer does not take in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-4

Portfolio management companies shall set a target for balanced representation of women and men among the teams, bodies and managers responsible for making investment decisions. The results obtained ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-1

Asset management companies shall act honestly, fairly and professionally in the best interests of investors. All information, including promotional communications, sent by an asset management company…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Rules applicable to financial contracts, temporary acquisitions and sales of financial instruments and guarantees

Article L214-21

Under the conditions and within the limits laid down by decree of the Conseil d'Etat, a UCITS may make temporary purchases and sales of financial instruments and borrow cash.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-2-2

Articles L. 222-2-1, L. 222-2-3 to L. 222-2-5, L. 222-2-7 and L. 222-2-8 may, with the agreement of the parties, be applied to athletes who are employed by their sports federation as members of a Fren…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article R2224-5-5

The territorial diagnosis drawn up pursuant to articles L. 2224-7-2 and L. 2224-7-3 excludes no site on the basis of the legality of its occupation and no person with regard to their administrative si…

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