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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Provisions common to all applications

Article R464-29

Decisions taken by the rapporteur general of the Autorité de la concurrence pursuant to Article L. 463-4 granting protection of business secrecy or refusing to lift such secrecy may only be appealed t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Breach of contract

Article R6222-23

An apprentice who wishes to terminate his contract if he obtains the diploma or qualification being prepared for, in application of article L. 6222-19, must inform the employer in writing at least one…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Offences

Article R8114-2

Failure to submit to the Labour Inspectorate the books, registers and documents made compulsory by this Code or by a legal provision relating to the labour regime, in disregard of article L. 8113-4, i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-8

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years at the time of the incident and whose purpose, under its articles of association, is to defend or assist sick, disabled or elderly…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions relating to the control of groups

Article R356-2

I.-The coordination agreements mentioned in III of Article L. 356-7-1 specify the procedures applied by the supervisory authorities concerned: 1° For decisions relating to applications for approval of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Payment services

Article D314-2

For the purposes of Article L. 314-1, the following definitions apply 1° Direct debit service: a service for debiting a payer's payment account, where a payment transaction is initiated by the payee o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Publicity of budgets and accounts

Article R3313-2

For the application of article R. 3313-1 : 1° The population to be taken into account is the total population, municipal and counted separately, as it results from the last known census on the date of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Publicity of budgets and accounts

Article R4313-2

For the application of Article R. 4313-1 : 1° The population to be taken into account is the total population, municipal and counted separately, as it results from the last known census on the date of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article D1432-28

The Regional Conference on Health and Autonomy is made up of a maximum of one hundred and nine members with voting rights, plus the members of the college of territorial health councils who also have…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Investment ratios

Article R214-26

I. - An open-ended investment company (société d'investissement à capital variable) or a management company acting on behalf of all the UCITS it manages shall not acquire shares carrying voting rights…

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