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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L4311-1

The regional budget is the act by which the region's annual revenue and expenditure are forecast and authorised. The budget voted must be balanced in terms of expenditure and revenue. The region's bud…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The People's Savings Plan.

Article R221-66

This standard agreement specifies the obligations of the organisations in terms of information to subscribers, the declarations to be made to the administration for statistical purposes, management an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-8

The Commercial Court, seised of a claim for payment relating to the operation of a business, may, if it makes an order and if the creditor so requests, by the same judgment order the sale of the busin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-58

The société anonyme is managed by a Management Board consisting of no more than five members. The composition of the Management Board shall endeavour to seek a balanced representation of women and men…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial organisation

Article R114-36

The centre's funds are deposited with an accountant from the Directorate General of Public Finances. When the centre's funds come from surpluses from previous financial years, from donations, from the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Portage salarial

Article L1255-18

In all the cases provided for in this section, the court may order, as an additional penalty, the display or dissemination of all or part of the decision, or of a press release informing the public of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Legal proceedings.

Article L1251-59

Representative trade union organisations may bring all legal actions resulting from the application of this chapter on behalf of an employee without having to provide proof of a mandate from the perso…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Article L1265-1

Representative trade union organisations may bring all legal actions resulting from the application of this Title on behalf of an employee, without having to provide proof of a mandate from the person…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L121-3

Where an insurance contract has been concluded for a sum in excess of the value of the insured items, if there has been fraud or deceit on the part of one of the parties, the other party may request t…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Public contracts awarded by a contracting entity to a joint venture

Article L2511-9

The rules laid down in Title II shall apply to public contracts concluded by a body set up exclusively by contracting entities to carry out one or more of the activities of a network operator with one…

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