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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to credit institutions, payment institutions and electronic money institutions

Article L754-10

Article L. 316-1 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the version resulting fromOrder no. 2013-544 of 27 June 2013, subject to the addition in the second paragraph, after the words: "to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Criminal provisions

Article L764-14

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Effects of sectoral collective agreements

Article L7343-44

Where a platform is bound by the clauses of a sector agreement, these clauses shall apply to commercial contracts concluded between the platforms and the workers referred to in Article L. 7341-1 whose…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L7321-4

Branch managers are responsible for the application of the provisions mentioned in 1° to 5° of article L. 7321-3 with regard to the employees under their authority, in place and stead of the company m…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-10

The exclusion of a member may be pronounced, as the case may be, by the board of directors or by the supervisory board if the cooperative society is constituted as a société anonyme, or by the managem…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-3

I.-A creditor who initiates an attachment-sale procedure or the debtor against whom it is initiated may request, before the commercial court within whose jurisdiction the business is operated, the sal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-13

Shares are freely transferable by inheritance or in the event of the liquidation of community property between spouses and freely transferable between spouses and between ascendants and descendants. H…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article L137-1

For the purposes of Articles L. 137-2 to L. 137-4, a person who provides an online public communication service whose main purpose, or one of whose main purposes, is to store and give the public acces…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-4

I.-The right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission, other than cable retransmission as defined in III of article L. 132-20-1 and meeting the conditions mentioned in II…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: The National Institute of Industrial Property

Article L411-1

The Institut national de la propriété industrielle is a public establishment with legal personality and financial autonomy, reporting to the Minister responsible for industrial property.The mission of…

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