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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Mobility vouchers

Article L3261-8

…feguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation procedure, employees holding unused but still valid and exchangeable securities on the date of the declaratory judgment may, in priority to any other cl…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Transparency

Article R1451-8

The minister, the chairman of the authority, the director or the chief executive of the establishment or grouping concerned may decide to make the recordings mentioned in article R. 1451-6 available o…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article A761-8

…nt makes available to the managers of markets of national interest, for their own use, the economic and statistical information available to them.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Determination of salary

Article R7422-8

Orders issued by the Prefect in accordance with articles L. 7422-6 and L. 7422-11 are published and inserted in the departmental administrative records within one month of the date on which they were…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6133-8

…three financial years or that there has been a serious or repeated failure to comply with the legal and regulatory provisions to which it is subject, the general director of the regional health agency…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L311-8

…or production by: 1° Audiovisual communication companies; 2° Producers of phonograms or videograms and persons who ensure, on behalf of producers of phonograms or videograms, the reproduction thereof…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties

Article L1337-8

Any advertising relating to the use of ionising radiation in human or veterinary medicine, when directed at persons other than doctors, veterinary surgeons or pharmacists, is punishable by a fine of €…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-8

…of patent applications at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle on a confidential basis.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Investigations

Article R232-86

…stigations referred to in 3° of the I of article L. 232-5 are intended to collect, obtain, evaluate and process information relating to the fight against doping, in accordance with procedures designed…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Restrictive competition practices

Article L442-8

…tions, the purchaser or the person organising them on its behalf shall communicate in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner to all candidates admitted to submit a bid the determining elements of…

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