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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Conduct of the procedure

Article R631-36

Where, pursuant to III of Article L. 631-19 the administrator or the debtor provides for redundancies for economic reasons in his draft plan, he shall attach the following documents to the report file…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Conduct of the procedure

Article R631-35

The articles R. 626-17 to R. 626-51, excluding article R. 626-18, the second and third paragraphs of article R. 626-20, and of article R. 626-22, are applicable to the receivership proceedings. The co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1609 G

…cle.The product of this tax is set annually at the amount provided for in I of Article 46 of Law n° 2011-1977 of 28 December 2011 on the finances for 2012.The proceeds mentioned in the second paragrap…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Cases of force majeure.

Article L1234-12

Termination of the business due to force majeure releases the employer from the obligation to respect the notice period and to pay the redundancy compensation provided for in article L. 1234-9.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting cases of poisoning

Article L1340-5

…s, downstream users or distributors shall declare to the bodies responsible for toxicovigilance any cases of human intoxication of which they are aware and which are induced by a substance or mixture…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting cases of poisoning

Article L1340-6

…of information covered by medical secrecy or industrial secrecy transmitted pursuant to articles L. 1340-4 and L. 1340-5 is preserved; 3° The conditions for sharing information between the bodies resp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting cases of poisoning

Article L1340-4

Healthcare professionals report cases of human intoxication caused by any substance, mixture or article of which they are aware to the bodies responsible for toxicovigilance.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Ordinary procedure

Article 779

…de that the lawyers will appear before him again, on a hearing date that he fixes, to confer on the case one last time if he considers that a final exchange of submissions or a final communication of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Ordinary procedure

Article 776

Subject to the provisions of Article 1108, on the day of the orientation hearing, the case shall be called before the president of the chamber seised or to which the case has been distributed.The latt…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Ordinary procedure

Article 777

…rove that they have concluded a participatory procedure agreement for the purposes of preparing the case for hearing, the President shall take the measures provided for in the second paragraph of Arti…

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