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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Import operations.

Article R442-10-2

The political risk is realised 1° When the goods cannot be dispatched or cannot leave the country of dispatch or do not reach the country of destination as a result of one of the following incidents o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: The Competition Authority.

Article L462-10

I.-The Autorité de la concurrence must be notified, for information purposes, at least four months before its implementation, of any agreement between undertakings or groups of natural or legal person…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Audience measurement

Article L7343-10

Disputes relating to the electoral roll and the legality of the electoral process fall within the jurisdiction of the courts.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions applicable to off-premises contracts

Article L221-10

…in any form whatsoever, from the consumer before the expiry of a period of seven days from the conclusion of the off-premises contract. However, the following are not subject to the provisions of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Assistance and representation of the parties

Article D1453-2-10

The employer is reimbursed monthly by the State for the salaries maintained in application of article L. 1453-6 as well as all the benefits and corresponding social security charges for which it is re…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Training arrangements

Article R212-10-20

Persons undergoing training preparing for a vocational certificate, vocational diploma, State diploma or higher State diploma in youth, popular education and sport or complementary certificates must,…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Conditions under which removal may be carried out

Article L722-10

The actual surrender of the foreign national, as provided for in Title II of Book VI, may not take place until the foreign national has been given the opportunity to present observations and to notify…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Conditions of application of the second and third paragraphs of article 73 of the Constitution to the overseas departments

Article LO3445-10

The request for empowerment to lay down a rule applicable within the territory of the department is adopted by reasoned deliberation of the departmental council taken by an absolute majority of its me…

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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
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-10

…any time during the observation period, the court, at the request of the debtor may order the partial cessation of business.Under the same conditions, at the request of the debtor, the administrator,…

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