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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: Miscellaneous provisions applicable to Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin.

Article L960-4

For the application to Saint-Martin of Title IX of Book VI, the words: "specially designated commercial court" are replaced by the words: "territorially competent commercial court". Article L. 721-8 s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Harassment.

Article L1152-4

The employer shall take all necessary steps to prevent moral harassment. The persons mentioned in article L. 1152-2 shall be informed by any means of the text of article 222-33-2 of the French Penal C…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Financial provisions

Article L2511-42

Where the arrondissement mayor has not sent the mayor of the municipality or the mayor of Paris the special statement within one month of the notification referred to in article L. 2511-40, this state…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Sociétés en commandite simple.

Article L222-4

The company's Articles of Association must contain the following information: 1° The amount or value of the contributions of all the partners; 2° The share in this amount or value of each active or li…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2 : Programme and estimated financial budget for the project

Article L2421-4

The development of the programme and the setting of the provisional financial envelope may continue during the preliminary design studies for:1° Refurbishment projects;2° New construction projects inv…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article L123-43

Registrations of information and filings of documents in the national register of companies are validated, for the natural persons mentioned in 3° of article L. 123-36, by the President of the regiona…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter III: Public contracts concluded by a contracting authority

Article L2513-4

The same rules apply to public contracts concluded or organised by a contracting authority exercising one or more of the activities mentioned in 2° of article L. 1212-3 and which relate to the explora…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Promissory notes.

Article L512-4

The provisions of article L. 511-21 relating to endorsement. In the case provided for in the sixth paragraph of this article, if the guarantee does not indicate on whose behalf it has been given, it i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General and financial provisions.

Article L5321-4

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions under which one or more of the Agency's support and back-up services may be pooled with one or more services of other bodies pursuant to A…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-44

A commission is set up, chaired by a representative of the State, and composed, in addition, of half representatives of representative professional press organisations and half representatives of repr…

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