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Showing 59015910 of 11310 articles for Art. Loi n° 81-766 – 10 Aug. 1981 – loi Lang

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L2573-38

…plicable to the communes of French Polynesia in its wording resulting from Programming Act No. 2021-1031 of 4 August 2021 on inclusive development and the fight against global inequalities.II. - For t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities

Article L4422-36

…petence; -draft resolutions relating to powers in the fields of education, culture and the Corsican language; -draft budget documents for the Corsican regional authority in order to give an opinion on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Cooperation and exchange of information with European supervisory and resolution authorities

Article L632-6-3

Notwithstanding the provisions of Law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions specific to the Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L632-11-2

Notwithstanding Act 68-678 of 26 July 1968 on the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the Autorité des…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Special privileges

Article 2332

Other than those provided for by special laws, preferential claims on certain movables are: 1° All sums due in execution of a lease or the occupation of a building, on the furniture furnishing the pre…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Content of agreements.

Article L3323-2

…t January 2007. All profit-sharing agreements in existence on the date of promulgation of Law no. 2010-1330 of 9 November 2010 on pension reform must be brought into compliance with this article and a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Self-employed practitioners

Article L6154-6

The director of the establishment to which the practitioner is assigned or the chairmen of the local commissions for self-employed activity referred to in article L. 6154-5 shall bring to the attentio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-subparagraph 1: Declarations for registration purposes.

Article R123-58

Where a commercial company whose registered office is abroad is not subject to the legislation of a Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, but…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-subparagraph 1: Declarations for registration purposes

Article R123-255

Where a commercial company whose registered office is abroad is not subject to the legislation of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, but ha…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations representing self-employed workers using platforms

Article L7343-2

For the purposes of this section, the following are deemed to be organisations representing the workers defined in Article L. 7341-1 who use the platforms referred to in Article L. 7342-1 for their ac…

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