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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Professional requirements

Article L511-3

Insurance and reinsurance intermediaries, natural persons who work for an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or an insurance or reinsurance intermediary, and who are responsible for the distribution…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Implementation within the company.

Article L3322-3

When a company that has entered into a profit-sharing agreement employs at least fifty employees, the obligations set out in this section do not apply until the third financial year after the profit-s…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-35

…the purchaser has not been repaid under the conditions provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 313-41, the sum due shall bear interest at half the legal rate from the fifteenth day followin…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-36

When the sum paid in advance by the lessee has not been returned under the conditions provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 313-62 for a hire-purchase contract and a sale with a promise t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single subsection: Public policy.

Article L3141-30

Articles L. 3141-28 and L. 3141-29 do not apply when the employer is required to join a holiday fund in application of article L. 3141-32.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2312-3

When it is renewed, the social and economic committee exercises only the powers provided for in section 2 and ceases to exercise the powers provided for in section 3 if the number of employees has not…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L212-3-3

I.-Where the performer has transferred all or part of his rights on an exclusive basis, he may, in the absence of any exploitation of his performance, terminate ipso jure the transfer of all or part o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article L134-3

In the event of insufficient representation of the commitments referred to in 1° of Article L. 134-1, the insurance undertaking shall perfect such representation by contributing assets representing it…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Opticians.

Article L4362-3

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3141-3

The employee is entitled to two and a half working days' leave for each month actually worked for the same employer. The total amount of leave payable may not exceed thirty working days.

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