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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Transparency, restrictive competition practices and other prohibited practices.

Article L443-5

Buyers of perishable agricultural and food products mentioned in 1° of II of Article L. 441-11 may not cancel an order within a period of less than thirty days. However, for a sector of activity, for…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Receivership.

Article L631-9

…xception of the first sentence of the sixth paragraph, as well as the articles L. 621-4-1 to L. 621-11 shall apply to the receivership proceedings. The court may refer the matter to itself or at the r…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article L2411-12

…the failure of voters to respond, recorded under the conditions provided for in 2° of article L. 2411-5 or due to the absence of voters, the syndicate commission has not been constituted following tw…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-55-1

…or in the previous paragraph may be carried out in accordance with the provisions of article R. 131-11-1 of the Penal Code. In all cases, the offender must send the public prosecutor or his or her del…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Implementation of placement under mobile electronic surveillance

Article R61-34

The dangerousness examination provided for by articles 763-10 and R. 61-11 may replace the expert appraisal provided for by l'article 712-21. The decision to place under mobile electronic surveillance…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Rules specific to the election of employee representatives

Article R1411-58-10

…e organised in accordance with the following procedures, subject to the provisions of articles R. 1411-58-11 and R. 1411-58-12: 1° In the event of a nominal or multi-member ballot: for each staff repr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Safeguard measures

Article R4314-12

…mic operator has not implemented the corrective measures prescribed on the basis of Article R. 4314-11, the market surveillance authority may, on the basis of Article L. 4314-2, by order, prohibit, re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5313-6-1

…isions relating to promotional communication provided for in the third paragraph of Article L. 1221-11. To this end, the Director General of the Agency may request the Etablissement Français du Sang a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1511-1

The Regional Council shall draw up a report on the aid and aid schemes implemented in its territory during the calendar year, under the conditions laid down in this chapter, by the territorial authori…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for exercising trade union rights in sports resource, expertise and performance centres

Article R114-66

Are considered representative within the meaning of articles 3, 3-1 and 5 of the aforementioned decree of 28 May 1982, on the one hand the trade union organisations with at least one seat on the socia…

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