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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-71

In companies which, at the close of two consecutive financial years, employ at least one thousand permanent employees in the company and its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: General health administration.

Article L1524-2

Chapter III of Title I of Book IV of this Part is applicable in the territory of the islands of Wallis and Futuna, in the wording resulting from Law No 2019-774 of 24 July 2019 on the organisation and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-1

The majority collective agreement referred to in article L. 1233-24-1 or the document drawn up by the employer referred to in article L. 1233-24-4 shall be sent to the administrative authority for val…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Additional regional tax on tourist tax

Article L4332-4

An additional tax of 34% to the tourist tax or flat-rate tourist tax levied in the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Alpes-Maritimes by the communes mentioned in Article L. 2333-26 as well as b…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Appendices

Article Annexe à l'article R314-3

PART I: Basic equation expressing the equivalence of loans, on the one hand, and repayments and charges, on the other. The basic equation, which defines the annual percentage rate of charge (APR), exp…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Contribution of the personal training account to the individual right to training of local elected representatives

Article L6323-43

The holder of a personal training account may use the rights registered in this account to finance all or part of a training action requested under the individual right to training for local elected r…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Consumer credit

Article L351-3

Sont applicables dans les îles Wallis et Futuna, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l'article L. 351-4, les dispositions des articles mentionnés dans la colonne de gauche du tableau ci-après, dans…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-9

A health care institution mentioned in b and c of article L. 162-22-6 of the Social Security Code may be authorised by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency to use independent medical pro…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Claims covered by the insurance.

Article L3253-8

The insurance mentioned in article L. 3253-6 covers :1° Sums owed to employees on the date of the judgment opening any receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings, as well as contributions owed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-17

The investigator may ask the person taking part in a performance study, at the time he or she gives informed consent, to agree to his or her data being used in subsequent research exclusively for scie…

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