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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Audiovisual production contract

Article L132-28

The producer shall provide the author and co-authors, at least once a year, with a statement of revenue from the exploitation of the work according to each mode of exploitation.At their request, he sh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 181-1

…of the investigation, there are sufficient charges against the person of having committed, other than a repeat offence, a crime punishable by fifteen years or twenty years of criminal imprisonment, h…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the statutes of professional leagues

Article R132-3

…entities that are members of the league. Qualified personalities, representatives of the federation and representatives of the sportsmen and women, coaches, referees and judges, doctors and administra…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Report to the President of the Republic - Parliamentary scrutiny

Article L143-1

The Governor of the Banque de France shall submit to the President of the Republic and to Parliament, at least once a year, a report on the operations of the Banque de France, the monetary policy it i…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Agence de développement touristique de la France.

Article D141-11

…ion for commercial tourist accommodation referred to in article L. 141-2 is responsible for issuing an opinion on the draft classification tables for hotels, tourist residences, furnished tourist acco…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Gradual gifts.

Article 1054

…are of the reserve, with his consent, automatically benefits, to that extent, all his children born and unborn.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Manual changers

Article L572-1

Any person, acting either on their own behalf or on behalf of a legal entity, who disregards one of the prohibitions set out in article L. 524-4 shall be liable to two years' imprisonment and a fine o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Public sector companies and establishments.

Article L2282-2

…orkshop or office council. Employees meet in each workshop or office at least once every two months and for at least six hours a year during working hours. The time spent at these meetings may not giv…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Members of the staff delegation of the inter-company social and economic committee

Article L2434-1

Breaking the employment contract of an employee who is a member of the staff delegation of the inter-company social and economic committee, a candidate for this position or a former member of the staf…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-41

Where a system for organising working time is implemented over a reference period longer than a week, overtime is deducted at the end of this reference period. This reference period may not exceed thr…

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