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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Filing

Article D3345-1

When a profit-sharing or incentive agreement, or a company savings plan, an inter-company savings plan, a collective retirement savings plan or a collective company retirement savings plan is conclude…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-6-1

In companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, when the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders has authorised a transaction resulting either in an exchange of shares o…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Term of office and termination.

Article L2314-37

When a titular delegate ceases to perform his duties for one of the reasons indicated in the present section or is temporarily absent for any reason whatsoever, he is replaced by a substitute elected…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Composition, election and term of office.

Article L2333-4

The total number of seats on the Group Works Council is divided between the elected representatives of the various electoral colleges in proportion to the numerical strength of each college. The seats…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article L23-111-1

I.-An inter-professional joint committee is set up at regional level to represent employees and employers in companies with fewer than eleven employees. II.It represents the employees and employers of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-24

I.-Retail establishments providing goods and services and located in international tourist zones may provide weekly rest in shifts for all or some of their staff, under the conditions set out in artic…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 722-11

Direct subsidies contribute to the following promotional expenses, provided they are directly allocated to the promotion of works abroad, excluding the company's own operating expenses: 1° Dubbing int…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18-3

Legal entities whose registered office is in France and whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market shall make public the information required by the report referred to in the last…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18

The AMF shall ensure that issuers referred to in Article L. 451-1-2 or issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Implementation within the company.

Article L3322-7

By way of derogation from article L. 3322-6, a group agreement may be concluded between the companies of the same group or only some of them. This agreement is concluded in one of the following ways:…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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