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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Fixing procedures.

Article L3232-4

The minimum monthly remuneration is reduced accordingly when : 1° During the month in question, the employee has worked fewer hours than the legal weekly working time in the event of suspension of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Adoption leave.

Article L1225-41

An employee holding the authorisation referred to in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rights of preferred film production creditors

Article L312-4

The rights of preferential creditors remain and may be exercised freely when the production company is the subject of one of the procedures provided for in Book VI of the Commercial Code, without the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Enforcement Committee

Article L561-41

I. - The Commission Nationale des Sanctions (National Enforcement Committee) receives reports or procedures drawn up following inspections carried out by the administrative authorities referred to in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Speech therapists.

Article L4341-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, grant individual authorisation to practise the profession of speech and language therap…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Provisions applicable during periods of general mobilisation and wartime

Article L2124-4

The formal notice provided for in article L. 2124-3 must indicate the time limit given to the mayor or president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation to respond to the representa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Pricing and approval.

Article L5123-4

The list of approved products may include several categories, each corresponding to one or more of the categories of users mentioned in article L. 5123-6. An order of the ministers responsible for vet…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5423-4

Failure to comply with a ban on the export of a medicinal product issued by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé in application of article L. 5124-11 is punishable b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IX: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L490-4

When a legal entity that has, for less than two years, been convicted of the offence defined by article L. 442-5 commits the same offence, the maximum rate of the fine incurred is equal to ten times t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Administrative protection

Article L431-4

In the absence of a final court ruling based on article L. 431-6, a decree in the Council of State, issued after a public enquiry carried out in accordance with the code de l'expropriation pour cause…

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