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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Value-added services

Article L224-44

…tionship with the consumer shall inform the consumer, on his website, of the existence of this tool and the means of accessing it.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Value-added services

Article L224-49

The costs of setting up and operating the tool are shared by the professionals mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 224-43.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secondment contract.

Article L1251-43

…cise justification, including, in particular, in the case of replacements as provided for in 1°, 4° and 5° of article L. 1251-6, the name and qualifications of the person being replaced or to be repla…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secondment contract.

Article L1251-44

Any clause prohibiting the user company from taking on the temporary employee at the end of his assignment is deemed unwritten.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secondment contract.

Article L1251-42

When a temporary employment undertaking makes an employee available to a user undertaking, these undertakings shall conclude a written secondment contract, at the latest within two working days of the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of the admissibility decision

Article L722-4

…udge responsible for the property seizure, referred for this purpose by the commission, for serious and duly justified reasons.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Resources and expenditure of the social and economic committee

Article R2312-49

The social and economic committee's resources for social and cultural activities are made up of : 1° The sums paid by the employer for the operation of the company's social institutions which are not…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Composition and operation of the central social and economic committee

Article D2316-4

For the assessment of the thresholds mentioned in article L. 2315-57 and in sub-section 9 of section 3 of chapter V of title I of book III of the second part of the present code, the resources for a g…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Default judgments and judgments deemed to be contradictory.

Article 474

…if those who do not appear have been summoned in person.Where the decision is not subject to appeal and at least one of the parties who has not appeared has not been summoned in person, the judgment i…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Default judgments and judgments deemed to be contradictory.

Article 479

The judgment by default or the judgment deemed to be contradictory rendered against a party residing abroad must expressly state the steps taken to give notice of the document instituting the proceedi…

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