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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Obligations of the recipient organisation

Article R1221-16

The body referred to in article R. 1221-3 shall keep the data contained therein for a period of six months from the date of receipt for the purposes of the administrations, departments, bodies or inst…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 19: Display and information.

Article R4534-153

The obligations laid down in this chapter shall be displayed in the changing room provided for in Article R. 4534-139. They shall be displayed in a suitable place, be easily accessible and kept in a c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Joint police and gendarmerie services

Article R15-26-1

The automated road traffic offence recording centre constitutes a joint service within which the officers and agents of the judicial police of the national police and gendarmerie carry out their usual…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation of the company.

Article R743-68-1

The company is dissolved ipso jure when all the members exercising their functions within the company simultaneously cease to exercise their functions under the conditions provided for in article L. 7…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R322-152

At the end of each year, the total assets of each association in the event of death are distributed among the beneficiaries of members who died during the year, subject only to the deductions which ma…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Portfolio transfers between a supplementary occupational pension fund and an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R370-10

I. - When a transfer operation referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 370-6 leads a supplementary occupational pension fund to provide occupational pension services in the territory of anoth…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Fees charged by commercial court registrars.

Article R743-140

The emoluments due to the clerks of the commercial courts for drawing up and checking the conformity of the deeds of their department are subject to the following provisions.They include remuneration…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Supplementary provisions

Article R3121-11

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 3121-23, exceeding the average weekly working time of forty-four hours is granted under the conditions defined in Article R. 3121-10.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5 : Fees payable for occupancy of the public domain by water and sewerage works

Article R3333-18

The fee payable each year to a department for the occupation of the departmental public domain by water and sewerage service works is determined by the departmental council under the conditions provid…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1 : Fees payable for occupation of the public domain by water and sewerage works

Article R4334-1

The fee payable each year to a region for the occupation of the regional public domain by water and sewerage service works is determined by the regional council under the conditions provided for by ar…

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