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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Establishments providing sailing instruction

Article A322-64

Physical activity or sports establishments which provide sailing instruction on all types of pleasure craft must provide the supervision, technical and safety guarantees defined by this sub-section. U…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Establishments providing sailing instruction

Article A322-68

The organisation of teaching activities takes into account the environment, the climatic and meteorological conditions, the level of the participants, the skills of the instructors and the surveillanc…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Establishments providing sailing instruction

Article A322-69

The collective and individual water sports equipment and facilities provided by the establishments comply with the regulations in force and are properly maintained. In addition, they are appropriate f…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee inventions

Article R611-6

Within a period of two months, the employer shall give its agreement to the classification of the invention resulting from the employee's declaration or, in the event that the classification is not in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Personalised assessment and protective measures

Article D1-6

In cases of sexual violence, gender-based violence or domestic violence, the victim shall be heard by an investigator of the same sex if he or she so requests. However, such a request shall not be gra…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-261

The labour shares are the collective property of the salaried staff, formed into a labour cooperative company. This labour company must and exclusively includes all employees who have been linked to t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-2

The persons referred to in Article L. 125-1 constitute, in the form of an economic interest grouping or a société anonyme à capital variable or a société coopérative de commerçants détaillants, a lega…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L1134-2

Representative trade union organisations at national level, at departmental level or at local authority level in Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General rules.

Article L1311-2

The decrees mentioned in article L. 1311-1 may be supplemented by orders issued by the representative of the State in the département or by orders issued by the mayor in order to lay down special prov…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VIII: European companies

Article L322-29

…été européenne registered in France intends to transfer its registered office outside France, it shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution no later than the day of publication…

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