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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee representative in the event of safeguarding, reorganisation or judicial liquidation of companies.

Article L2411-16

Article L. 662-4 of the French Commercial Code sets out the procedure for authorising the dismissal of an employee representative in the event of safeguarding, receivership or compulsory liquidation,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Setting up.

Article L3334-5-1

A collective retirement savings plan may provide for default membership by the company's employees, unless the latter advise otherwise. Employees are informed of this clause under conditions laid down…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Adaptation of laws and regulations by overseas departments

Article LO3445-6-1

…renewal by reasoned deliberation of the departmental council adopted within six months of its renewal.The deliberation provided for in the first paragraph of this article is sent to the Prime Minister…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Sole traders with limited liability

Article L526-13

…gned is subject to independent accounting, established under the conditions defined in the articles L. 123-12 à L. 123-23 et L. 123-25 to L. 123-27.By way of derogation from Article L. 123-28 and the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Exclusive right of exploitation

Article L613-2-1

…ubsequent claim covering the same sequence if that claim itself satisfies the conditions of Article L. 611-18 and that it sets out another specific application of this sequence.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Exclusive right of exploitation

Article L613-5-1

As an exception to the provisions of Articles L. 613-2-2 and L. 613-2-3, the sale or any other act of commercialisation of plant reproductive material by the patent holder, or with his consent, to a f…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IIa A: National aviation tax commission

Article 1651 L bis

…eronautical Taxes is hereby set up with jurisdiction to examine the disputes referred to in Article L. 59 C bis of the Book of Tax Procedures. This commission is chaired by the president of the admini…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-2-1

…spend the testing, manufacture, preparation, import, use, export, wholesale distribution, packaging and placing on the market, whether free of charge or in return for payment, the holding with a view…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Public Health Agency

Article L1413-12-2

I.-The rules of professional conduct applicable to members of the Agency's Boards and Committees, its employees, health reservists and persons who occasionally provide assistance to the Agency or its…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Public Health Agency

Article L1413-12-3

The terms and conditions for the application of this section shall be laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, which shall specify in particular:1° The conditions under which the National Public Hea…

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