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Showing 17611770 of 69067 articles for Art. s. L 232-1 and L 123-14 · Art. L 242-8

French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Advertising

Article L312-8

In all written advertising, regardless of the medium used, the information relating to the annual percentage rate of charge, its fixed, variable or revisable nature, the total amount owed by the borro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to sanitation

Article L2224-8

I. - Communes are responsible for wastewater treatment.In this context, they draw up a collective wastewater treatment plan including, before the end of 2013, a detailed description of wastewater coll…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1511-8

I. - Local authorities and their groupings may grant aid to encourage healthcare professionals to set up or remain in areas defined in application of 1° of article L. 1434-4 of the Public Health Code.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-8

The promoter is responsible for compensating for the harmful consequences of the performance study for the person taking part in it and their dependants, unless it can prove that the damage is not att…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
section 2: Contracts concluded between a performer and a videogram producer

Article L212-8

The stipulations of the conventions or agreements mentioned in the preceding articles may be made binding within each sector of activity for all those concerned by order of the competent minister.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Expiry of the contract term and continuation after expiry.

Article L1243-8

When, at the end of a fixed-term employment contract, the contractual employment relationship is not continued by an open-ended contract, the employee is entitled, by way of additional salary, to an e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financing

Article L2312-82

In companies with several establishment social and economic committees, the determination of the overall amount of the employer's contribution paid to finance the committee's social and cultural activ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article L645-8

The judicial representative or the person chosen on the basis of the first paragraph of II of article L. 812-2 or on the basis of III of the same article, immediately informs known creditors of the op…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Judgment on liability

Article L623-8

In the same decision finding the trader liable, the court shall set the period within which consumers may join the group in order to obtain compensation for their loss. This period may not be less tha…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Changes in the legal status of the company.

Article L3323-8

When there is a change in the legal situation of the company, by merger, transfer or demerger, making it impossible to apply a profit-sharing agreement, this agreement ceases to have effect between th…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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