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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article L222-3

For contracts relating to financial services involving an initial service agreement followed by successive transactions or a series of separate transactions of the same nature staggered over time, the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Urban Community

Article L5215-35

The loss of revenue that the urban community suffers as a result of the temporary exemptions enjoyed by new constructions as well as the premises referred to in articles 1384 C and 1384 D of the Gener…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Definition of the economic reason.

Article L1233-3

A redundancy for economic reasons is a redundancy carried out by an employer for one or more reasons not inherent in the person of the employee, resulting from the elimination or transformation of a j…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating conditions

Article L425-3

The provisions of Articles L. 533-11 to L. 533-16, L. 533-18, L. 533-19, L. 533-24 and L. 533-24-1 are applicable to transactions concluded on an organised trading system.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L2141-3

An embryo may only be conceived in vitro within the framework and in accordance with the objectives of medically assisted procreation as defined in Article L. 2141-1.Taking into account the state of m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Meetings of staff representatives.

Article L1233-31

Together with the invitation to the first meeting, the employer sends the employee representatives all relevant information about the proposed mass redundancies.It shall indicate1° The economic, finan…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Negotiating and formalising the commercial relationship

Article L441-3

I.-A written agreement concluded between the supplier, with the exception of suppliers of products mentioned in article L. 443-2, and the distributor or service provider sets out the reciprocal obliga…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Search for an assignment.

Article R6152-50-3

The remuneration of the hospital practitioner, provided by the Centre national de gestion, includes the emoluments mentioned in 1° of article R. 6152-23 and the exclusive public service commitment all…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementing measures

Article L412-3

The conditions under which the mandatory nutrition declaration provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October, as amended, on the provision of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Votes and deliberations

Article L2315-32

Resolutions of the Social and Economic Committee are passed by a majority of the members present. The chairman of the social and economic committee does not take part in the vote when he consults the…

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