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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-11-1

I.-The statutory auditor of a public interest entity shall implement the measures mentioned in paragraph 5 of Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of 16 April 2014, when a member of the network to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Preliminary provisions.

Article L210-12

A company which has fewer than fifty permanent employees during the financial year and whose articles of association meet the conditions defined in 1° and 2° of article L. 210-10 may provide in its ar…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financing of the insurance allowance.

Article L5422-10

Employers' contributions are excluded from the basis of assessment for the contribution mentioned in article L. 136-1 of the Social Security Code. They are deductible from industrial and commercial, a…

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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 L217-1-1

The rights related to copyright corresponding to the communication to the public and reproduction of a phonogram or videogram incorporated into a television or radio programme on an ancillary online s…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Group governance system.

Article L356-18

I.-The participating and parent undertakings referred to in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 respectively shall set up a system of governance which guarantees sound and prudent mana…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions

Article L6213-10-1

A decree sets the conditions under which, by way of derogation from Articles L. 6213-1 and L. 6213-2, medical biologists may be temporarily replaced.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Biomedicine

Article L1418-1-1

The Agence de la biomédecine draws up an annual activity report which is made public and which it sends to Parliament, which refers it to the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Financing obligation for employers with fewer than eleven employees

Article L6331-1

Employers with fewer than eleven employees pay the vocational training contribution referred to in 2° of article L. 6131-2 of this code by paying 0.55% of the amount of earned income used to calculate…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-1

I. - With effect from 2012, a national fund for the equalisation of inter-communal and communal resources is created for communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their ow…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Negotiations on pay, working time and the sharing of added value

Article L2242-15

The annual negotiations on pay, working time and the sharing of added value within the company cover : 1° Actual salaries ; 2° The actual duration and organisation of working time, in particular the i…

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