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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article R3124-6

…ly with the provisions relating to the annual quota of overtime hours laid down in articles L. 3121-30 and L. 3121-33 is punishable by the fine laid down for fourth class offences. As many fines are i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Sales of immovable property.

Article R642-36-1

The official receiver shall rule on the sale after having heard the observations of the auditors and heard or duly summoned the debtor and his spouse where the latter is in one of the situations provi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Application of international conventions and European Union law

Article L614-25

…ns of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on 20 March 1883, and of the arrangements, additional acts and closing protocols which have modified or wi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-2

…al director of public finance sends his report to the public prosecutor by the first working day of March at the latest. The public prosecutor's report is made public before the last working day of Ju…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Common provisions.

Article L1545-4

…wers in accordance with the procedures laid down in article 203 of the Organic Law no. 99-209 of 19 March 1999 relating to New Caledonia.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-1

…Title IV of Book II of Part One of this Code, as well as the couple, the surviving member or the unmarried woman who has consented to one or more of her embryos being received by another couple or an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L2446-2

…thcare system. Article L. 2223-2 is applicable in the version resulting from Law No. 2017-347 of 20 March 2017 relating to the extension of the offence of obstructing the voluntary termination of preg…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R322-7

…ust contain, in addition to the information listed in articles 92 or 117 of decree no. 67-236 of 23 March 1967 on commercial companies, an indication of the amounts paid to the persons mentioned, as t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Other conditions of access and practice.

Article R512-15

…by order of the Minister for the Economy. II - The guarantee commitment, which takes effect on 1st March for a period of twelve months, is tacitly renewed on 1st January of each year. The amount of t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R272

…ench Polynesia within the limits imposed respectively by Article 86 of Organic Law No. 99-209 of 19 March 1999 relating to New Caledonia and Article 94 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004…

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