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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Acquisition of rights

Article R512-18-1

A decision is taken on the application for registration referred to in Articles R. 512-15 and R. 512-17 within six months of its submission. This period is interrupted, where applicable, by the notifi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Provisions applicable where the employer is established in another Member State of the European Community or the European Economic Area

Article L3253-18-3

The guarantee due in application of article L. 3253-18-1 relates to the unpaid debts mentioned in article L. 3253-8. However, the periods provided for in 2° and 3° of article L. 3253-8 are extended to…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 4: Obligation and conditions of registration

Article L211-18-1

…essionals who are not established in a Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and who sell or offer for sale the services mentioned…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Supplementary provisions

Article R3121-12

Authorisation to exceed the maximum average weekly working time provided for in article L. 3121-25 may be granted in one of the following ways: 1° If the average weekly working time of forty-six hours…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Breach of contract.

Article L6222-18-2

…cle L. 6222-18, the training centre in which the apprentice is registered takes the necessary steps to enable him to follow his theoretical training for six months and helps to find him a new employer…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IX: Parental authority

Article 1210-11

The decision refusing return issued by a foreign court and the accompanying documents transmitted to the court already seised by the parties of an application relating to the exercise of parental auth…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-8

…mentioned in 3° of I of article L. 232-5 and in article L. 232-18-1, at the request of the investigators and subject to the preservation of a legally protected secret enforceable against the French An…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-18-1

…hall establish and publish once a year, for each category of financial instrument, a ranking of the top five execution venues based on the trading volumes on which they executed client orders during t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-18-2

…stment service providers other than asset management companies that execute client orders shall monitor the effectiveness of their order execution arrangements and execution policy in order to identif…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Provisions applicable where the employer is established in another Member State of the European Community or the European Economic Area

Article L3253-18-8

When the foreign liquidator or any person exercising a function similar to that of the mandataire judiciaire, the administrateur judiciaire or the liquidator has ceased his functions or in the case me…

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