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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment of training costs

Article L6323-24

The account may be used by jobseekers looking for work in a European Union Member State other than France if they are not registered with the institution mentioned in article L. 5312-1, subject to the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Group action

Article L623-24

Where the breaches of which the trader is accused concern compliance with the rules defined in Title II of Book IV of the Commercial Code or Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-2

I.-The request to delimit or modify the zones defined in articles L. 3132-25 and L. 3132-25-1 is made by the mayor or, after consultation with the mayors concerned, by the president of the public esta…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article L228-24

If an approval clause is stipulated, the request for approval indicating the full name and address of the transferee, the number of shares or securities giving access to the capital whose transfer is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-24

When the person who has been fined an increased fixed-rate fine does not contest the reality of the offence but, due to financial difficulties, requests payment deadlines or an exonerated fine, they s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-248

If, as a result of losses recorded in the accounting documents, the company's shareholders' equity falls below half of the share capital, the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case ma…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article L224-25-2

I.-The provisions of this section shall apply to any contract under which a trader, or any person holding himself out or acting as a trader, provides digital content and a digital service to a consume…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-24

Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation which received, in place of the communes making up the public establishment, the allocations provided for in article L. 234-13 of the code des com…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Chapter IIa: Mediation

Article L1112-24

Without prejudice to existing mediation mechanisms, the municipalities, departments, regions and public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may, by deliberation of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article L321-24

Nationals of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who permanently carry out the activity of voluntary sales of furniture by publi…

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