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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Implementation procedures and specifications for the supported employment scheme

Article D5213-88

The supported employment scheme referred to in article L. 5213-2-1 is implemented for the purpose of integration into the ordinary working environment, by a legal entity which organises, by means of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Insurance for research sponsors

Article R1121-8

The insurer may not invoke against the victim or his successors : 1° The fact that the research was carried out even though consent had not been given under the conditions provided for in articles L.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Respect for the human body

Article 16-8

No information enabling both the person who has donated an element or product of their body and the person who has received it to be identified may be disclosed. The donor may not know the identity of…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Duration

Article L3114-8

In the field of drinking water, wastewater treatment, household waste and other waste, concession contracts may not have a term of more than twenty years, unless the competent State authority, at the…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 6: Small modifications

Article R3135-8

The concession contract may be amended when the amount of the amendment is less than the European threshold set out in the notice annexed to this code and less than 10% of the amount of the initial co…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TREATMENT OF OVER-INDebtedness

Article R713-8

In the event of an appeal, a stay of execution may be requested from the first president of the court of appeal by summary proceedings. Until the day on which the order is handed down by the first pre…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Mobility vouchers

Article L3261-8

In the event of the issuer being placed under a safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation procedure, employees holding unused but still valid and exchangeable securities on the date of the dec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia.

Article L936-8

For the application of articles L. 622-24, L. 622-26, L. 625-4, L. 626-5, L. 626-20, L. 631-18, L. 641-14 and L. 662-4, the institutions mentioned in article L. 143-11-4 of the Labour Code are the New…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation

Article R4381-88

In the cases provided for in the second paragraph of article 37 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies concerning companies adopting the status of coopera…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Quality of vocational training courses

Article R6316-8

The certification requirement provided for in Article L. 6316-1 is assessed, depending on the case, either on the date of conclusion of the agreement with the funder mentioned in the same article, or…

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