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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article L23-111-1

…at regional level to represent employees and employers in companies with fewer than eleven employees. II.It represents the employees and employers of companies with fewer than eleven employees in bra…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial provisions.

Article L1271-15-1

…r individual entrepreneurs paid by universal service vouchers for the reimbursement of these vouchers. By way of derogation from the first paragraph, issuers do not receive any remuneration for the se…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Implementing provisions

Article L23-115-1

…e procedures for the presentation of the employees on the electoral propaganda mentioned in article L. 23-112-2 ; 2° The procedures for the notification to the employers of the employees mentioned in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Digital health space, shared medical file and pharmaceutical file

Article L1111-13-1

…digital health space is opened automatically, unless the person or their legal representative objects. The person concerned or their legal representative is informed of the opening of the digital heal…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-1-1

…rance is the activity of an undertaking, other than a securitisation vehicle referred to in Article L. 310-1-2, which consists of accepting risks ceded either by an insurance undertaking, another rein…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-10-1

…or industrial property attorneys registered on the list mentioned in the third paragraph of Article L. 422-1. The Compagnie nationale des conseils en propriété industrielle monitors compliance with th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer of ownership

Article L211-17-1

…er has been executed, the buyer and seller of the financial instruments referred to in I of Article L. 211-1 are definitively committed, the former to pay and the latter to deliver, on the date referr…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter III: The direct payment procedure for maintenance payments

Article L213-1

…ght in the hands of any debtor of sums due by way of remuneration, as well as any depositary of funds. An application for direct payment is admissible as soon as a maintenance instalment has not been…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Creation of delegated communes within a new commune

Article L2113-17-1

…e or in part, on their territory. The communes déléguées with a commune council pursuant to article L. 2113-12 may receive allocations from the new commune. The amount of the sums earmarked for the al…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Hospital practitioners.

Article L6152-1-1

In addition to the staff mentioned in article L. 6152-1, the staff of public health establishments include students authorised to practise medicine, pharmacy and dentistry on a locum basis. The statut…

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