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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance and exemptions.

Article L5134-31

…ntract gives entitlement to exemption : 1° For the legal entities mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 5134-21 of this code, from the contributions payable by the employer in respect of social insuran…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-31

Directors elected by employees or appointed pursuant to Article L. 225-27-1 shall not lose the benefit of their employment contract. Their remuneration as employees may not be reduced as a result of e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ic: Combating drug supply shortages

Article L5121-31

For the medicinal products of major therapeutic interest mentioned in article L. 5111-4 , marketing authorisation holders and pharmaceutical companies exploiting medicinal products draw up and impleme…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article L123-31

…d'Etat, in particular the conditions for the authorisation of the agents mentioned in 2° of Article L. 123-30 and the terms and conditions for the exercise of their powers..

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-31

…association set up under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article L. 621-32: - publishers of press publications within the meaning of law no. 86-897 of 1 August 1986…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocation of working hours

Article L3123-31

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in article L. 3123-24, any change in the distribution of working hours between the days of the week or the weeks of the month is notified to the employee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Annual consultation on company social policy, working conditions and employment

Article L2312-31

…e to any employee who so requests.It is made available to the labour inspector mentioned in article L. 8112-1, together with the opinion of the social and economic committee, within fifteen days of th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the use of administrative police powers in resolution proceedings

Article L311-31

The collège de résolution shall carry out the automatic transfer provided for in 4° of I of Article L. 311-30 under the conditions set out in the first, second and third paragraphs of I of Article L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-31

…east equivalent remuneration and benefits from the professional interview mentioned in I of article L. 6315-1. They may not invoke any right to be re-employed before the leave expires.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Investment certificates.

Article L228-31

…ragraph shall decide under the conditions laid down for the approval of special benefits by Article L. 225-147, after a meeting of holders of voting rights certificates, convened and ruling in accorda…

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