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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Group retirement savings plan

Article D3334-3-3

The fees for managing the sums invested in the collective retirement savings plan after a beneficiary has left the company, as mentioned in article L. 3334-7, may not exceed an annual amount of 20 eur…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-3

Any person, including any public official or any member of the armed forces, who has suffered loss as a result of intentional or unintentional acts which have the material nature of an offence may obt…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition

Article R6123-3-3

…ident of the Regional Council, the Regional Committee for Employment, Training and Vocational Guidance is made up of members appointed by order of the Regional Prefect: 1° Six representatives of the r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Intercountry adoption, conflicts of law and the effect in France of adoptions granted abroad

Article 370-3

…ich the adoption application is lodged or, failing that, to the law of their common habitual residence on the day on which the adoption application is lodged or, failing that, to the law of the court…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Certificates of French nationality

Article 31

The director of the judicial registry services of the judicial court has sole authority to issue a certificate of French nationality to any person proving that they have that nationality.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 360

…nfers on the adopted person a filiation which is added to his or her filiation of origin in accordance with the procedures laid down in this chapter. The adopted person continues to belong to his or h…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 361

…resulting from simple adoption extends to the adopted person's children.Marriage is prohibited:1° Between the adopter, the adopted person and their descendants;2° Between the adopted person and the s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 363

…s surname to his or her own surname, within the limit of a single surname for each of them. The choice of the name to be added and the order of the two names are a matter for the adopter, who must obt…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 364

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 362

The adopter has sole parental authority over the adopted child, including the right to consent to the marriage of the adopted child. The rights of parental authority are exercised by the adopter(s) un…

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