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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 684

The document intended to be served on a person whose habitual residence is abroad shall be delivered to the public prosecutor's office, except in cases where a European regulation or an international…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 687

The public prosecutor shall inform the requesting authority of the steps taken; he or she shall, where appropriate, forward to the requesting authority any minutes or receipts recording the delivery o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 688

The court shall be seised of the claim made by writ by the delivery to it of the document completed with the information provided for in Article 684-1 or, as the case may be, in Article 687-1, where a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 685

The authority responsible for service shall give two copies of the document to the public prosecutor, who shall endorse the original.The public prosecutor shall forward the copies of the document with…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 686

Unless it has been possible to effect service by post, the authority responsible for service must, on the same day or, at the latest, on the first working day thereafter, send to the addressee, by reg…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Provisions relating to the implementation of an internal bail-out measure

Article L613-55-6

…Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 only on or after the liquidation of positions relating to such financial contracts or derivatives. Upon commencement of the resolution procedure, the resol…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Job security contract

Article L1233-67

If the employee signs up to the Contrat de Securisation Professionnelle, the employment contract is terminated. Any dispute relating to the termination of the employment contract or the reason therefo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Job security contract

Article L1233-66

In companies not subject to article L. 1233-71, the employer is obliged to offer, during the preliminary interview or at the end of the last meeting of staff representatives, the benefit of the profes…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Job security contract

Article L1233-68

…plementing the professional securitisation contract, in particular : 1° The conditions of seniority to benefit from it ; 2° The formalities involved in signing up to the job security contract and the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employment protection plan.

Article L1233-64

…ons laid down by agreement with the companies concerned, in the implementation of measures relating to the job protection plan.

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