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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-6

Where equivalent control guarantees are maintained, companies may, under the conditions and within the limits determined by decree, derogate from the retention of pay slips and the keeping of certain…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-4

The labour inspectors referred to in Article L. 8112-1 may, during their inspections, ask to see all the books, registers and documents made compulsory by this Code or by any legal provision relating…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-5

The Labour Inspectorate control officers mentioned in Article L. 8112-1 may request any document or piece of information, regardless of the medium, that is useful for establishing facts likely to veri…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Administrative formalities for companies

Article L123-34

In its relations with the administrations, persons or bodies mentioned in article L. 123-32, a company may not be required to give an identification number other than the unique number allocated under…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Value-added services

Article L224-54

Any provider of a voice communications service, within the meaning of 7° of Article L. 32 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, shall offer consumers a free option to block calls to p…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Value-added services

Article L224-51

Any provider of a voice communications service, within the meaning of 7° of article L. 32 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, offers consumers with whom it has a contractual relatio…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Accounting rules for transfers of supplementary occupational pension contracts

Article L384-5

I. - The assets transferred with a portfolio of supplementary occupational pension contracts by a life insurance or capitalisation undertaking or a supplementary occupational pension fund are allocate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Formation with a public offer other than one of those mentioned in 1° or 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

Article L225-11

Withdrawal of funds from cash subscriptions may not be made by the company's agent until the company has been registered in the Trade and Companies Register. If the company is not incorporated within…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 9: Contracts for the purchase of precious metals

Article L224-99

The consumer has a period of forty-eight hours from the signing of the contract to exercise his right of withdrawal, without having to justify his reasons or pay any penalties. Exercising the right of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Titre Emploi-Service Entreprise.

Article L1273-3

The use of the "Titre Emploi-Service Entreprise" service enables the company in particular to: 1° To obtain the calculation of remuneration due to employees under this Code and the provisions of colle…

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