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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Mediation

Article L316-1

All consumers have the right to have recourse free of charge to a mediator under the conditions laid down in Chapter II of Title I of Book VI of the Consumer Code with a view to resolving a dispute be…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L550-1

For the purposes of I of Article L. 512-1, agents who are not general insurance agents, who carry out their activity in the name and on behalf of an insurance undertaking and under its full responsibi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-1

In companies which are not obliged to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the French Labour Code, when the owner of a shareholding representing more than 50% of the shares in a lim…

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

Article L822-11

I.-Statutory auditors are prohibited from accepting an engagement to certify the accounts of a public interest entity if, during the financial year preceding that for which the accounts are to be cert…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Management entrusted to private-law bodies by agreement or convention.

Article L5427-1

The signatory parties to the agreement provided for in article L. 5422-20 entrust the management of the unemployment insurance scheme to a private law body of their choice. The institution mentioned i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Chiropodists.

Article L4322-12-1

I. - An inter-regional council and a disciplinary chamber of first instance of the Order of chiropodists of Ile-de-France-Antilles-Guyane-La Réunion-Mayotte are competent for chiropodists practising i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rights of foreign employees.

Article L8252-1

A foreign employee employed in disregard of the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 8251-1 shall, from the date of his recruitment, be treated in the same way as an employee duly employed…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Voluntary secure mobility

Article L1222-14

On his return to his original company, the employee is automatically reinstated in his previous job or in a similar job, with at least equivalent qualifications and remuneration, as well as maintainin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L450-10

The provisions of Article 121-2 of the Penal Code are not applicable to the offences mentioned in Article L. 450-9, nor to those mentioned in I of Article L. 450-8, when the opposition relates to acts…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

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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