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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Organisation of certain film screenings

Article L214-2

The organisations mentioned in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5423-2

Carrying out the drug brokering activity referred to in article L. 5124-19, without having registered with the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé under the conditions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4311-22

A nurse who is a national of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who is established and legally practises the activities of a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Social security and tax arrangements for profit-sharing.

Article L3315-2

When a beneficiary has subscribed to a company savings plan mentioned in Title III and allocates all or part of the sums allocated to him by the company under the profit-sharing scheme within a period…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 6: Criminal provisions

Article L232-27

Natural persons guilty of the offences provided for in article L. 232-26 of this Code shall also be liable to the following additional penalties: 1° Confiscation of the substances or processes, object…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Allowance for self-employed workers

Article L5424-27

The measures for applying this section, in particular the conditions of resources, previous length of activity and previous income from activity as well as the criteria for assessing and certifying th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Powers exercised on behalf of the municipality.

Article L2122-21

Under the control of the town council and the administrative control of the State representative in the department, the mayor is generally responsible for carrying out the decisions of the town counci…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: END OF PROTECTION

Article L562-2

The person concerned is given the opportunity to submit written observations on the grounds for ending refugee status or the benefit of subsidiary protection.If, however, the French Office for the Pro…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Criminal provisions

Article L2317-2

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 2312-19, the failure, in a company with at least three hundred employees or in a separate establishment with at least three hundred employe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Changes to the employment contract giving rise to ten or more refusals.

Article L1233-25

Where at least ten employees have refused to accept a change to an essential element of their employment contract, proposed by their employer for one of the economic reasons set out in Article L. 1233…

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