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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Notifications between lawyers.

Article 673

Direct service is effected by delivering the document in duplicate to the receiving lawyer, who immediately returns one of the copies to his colleague after dating and stamping it.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-3-2

…anises the continuation of employment contracts in the event of a succession of companies in the performance of a contract, the employees of the new service provider cannot usefully invoke differences…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-4

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the application of articles L. 1224-1 and L. 1224-2.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-1

In the event of a change in the legal status of the employer, in particular by succession, sale, merger, conversion of the business or incorporation of the company, all employment contracts in force o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-2

…rd to the employees whose employment contracts remain in force, by the obligations incumbent on the former employer on the date of the change, except in the following cases:1° Safeguard, receivership…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-3-1

Subject to the application of special legislative or regulatory provisions, when the activity of a public law legal entity employing non-tenured public law employees is taken over by a private law leg…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Transfer of the employment contract.

Article L1224-3

When the activity of an economic entity employing employees under private law is taken over by a public entity as part of a public administrative service, it is the responsibility of this public entit…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Place of service.

Article 690

Notification intended for a legal person governed by private law or a public establishment of an industrial or commercial nature shall be made at the place of its establishment.Failing such a place, i…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Place of service.

Article 689-1

Any party residing abroad has the option of declaring to the registry of the court seised, as soon as the proceedings are instituted, that he elects domicile in France in order to be made the addresse…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Place of service.

Article 691

Notifications intended for the public prosecutor and those that must be made to the public prosecutor's office shall be made, as the case may be, to the public prosecutor's office of the court before…

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