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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-245-1

…nt of the conversion of a société anonyme into a société européenne, the first paragraph of Article L. 225-244 does not apply. The company draws up plans to convert the company into a société européen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common principles

Article L6323-9-2

The service provider referred to in Article L. 6351-1 may entrust to a subcontractor, by contract and under its responsibility, the performance of the actions referred to in Article L. 6323-6, under c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 10: Provisions relating to the resolution procedure

Article L613-57-2

…obligations of a person subject to resolution proceedings or of a measure pursuant to II of Article L. 613-56-3 shall not affect the proper functioning and the rules governing the systems referred to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Composition and mandate

Article L23-112-2

In the context of the ballot referred to in articles L. 2122-10-1 and L. 2122-6, the candidate employee trade union organisations referred to in article L. 2122-10-6 may indicate on their electoral pr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Insurance on goods transported by all modes of transport

Article L173-22-1

Suspension and cancellation for non-payment of a premium in respect of property insurance contracts covering damage to goods carried shall have no effect in respect of bona fide third parties who are…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Economic development

Article L4424-28-1

The Corsican regional authority may participate, through the payment of grants, in the constitution of a guarantee fund with a credit institution or finance company whose exclusive purpose is to guara…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to investment service providers

Article L533-10-2

…e to the application of Section 8 of Chapter I of Title I of Book V, Articles II and III of Article L. 533-29 apply to credit institutions authorised to provide one or more of the investment services…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-1-2

For the application of article L. 5121-10-1 to Wallis and Futuna, in the first paragraph, the words: "without prejudice to the evaluation of the expected service by the Haute Autorité de santé pursuan…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Redundancies for economic reasons.

Article L321-4-2

I.-In companies not subject to the provisions of article L. 321-4-3, the employer is obliged to offer each employee whose redundancy is being considered for economic reasons the benefit of a personali…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-46-2

…purpose of reaching a joint decision on a request for authorisation provided for in III of Article L. 613-46, the supervisory college shall provide all the cooperation required. In particular, it sha…

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