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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Health and safety coordination and coordinator.

Article L4532-2

Workers' health and safety must be coordinated on any building or civil engineering site involving several self-employed workers or companies, including subcontractors, in order to prevent the risks a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Support for young people's initiative projects.

Article L5522-23

Young people who set up or take over a profit-making business whose head office and main establishment are located in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Sain…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Support for young people's initiative projects.

Article L5522-27

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions for the application of this sub-section, in particular those for the payment, suspension or cancellation of the aid, as well as those rela…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Support for young people's initiative projects.

Article L5522-22

In Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, young people aged between eighteen and thirty may receive financial assistan…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Support for young people's initiative projects.

Article L5522-25

The aid provided for in Article L. 5522-23 is exempt from all social security contributions and taxes.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Support for young people's initiative projects.

Article L5522-26

Young people who are receiving or have received aid for the young people's initiative project under this sub-section may also receive aid for setting up or taking over a business as provided for in Ti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Support for young people's initiative projects.

Article L5522-24

The aid provided for in Article L. 5522-23, the maximum amount of which is determined by decree, is paid from the date on which the business is actually created or taken over.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal regime for declarations of activity

Article L6351-2

The declaration of activity includes administrative information identifying the declarant, as well as descriptive information about the activity.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article L122-2-2

Also governed by the provisions of this code is the performance right in a work broadcast by satellite from the territory of a non-EU Member State that does not provide a level of copyright protection…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Municipal police

Article L2212-2-2

In the event that, after formal notice has been served but to no avail, the mayor carries out compulsory pruning work intended to put an end to the advance of private plantations on the right-of-way o…

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