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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-9

…ered as actual working time. The period of on-call duty is compensated either financially or in the form of time off. Employees affected by periods of on-call duty are informed of their individual sch…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 212-48

The aid is granted in the form of an advance.The aid is the subject of an agreement signed with the production company on the basis of proof of expenditure.When the project goes into production, 50% o…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Notice of concession

Article R3122-1

…out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1986 of 11 November 2015 establishing standard forms for the publication of notices in the framework of the award of public contracts and repealing…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-28

Business legal entities which, although not required to do so because of their legal form or the size of the group as a whole, publish consolidated accounts, shall comply with the provisions of articl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Status of commercial court judges

Article L722-18

Commercial court judges shall perform their duties with complete independence, dignity, impartiality, integrity and probity and shall behave in such a way as to prevent any legitimate doubt in this re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions

Article R514-4

…ipt, on the premises of the National Institute of Industrial Property or by a message in electronic form in accordance with the procedures laid down by the Director General of the Institute to guarant…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article R612-17

…atures which are necessary for the definition of the claimed elements but which, combined together, form part of the state of the art; 2° A characterising part, preceded by an expression of the type "…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

Article L512-41

…inion is required, it shall be ordered and carried out in accordance with the provisions and in the form set out in Articles 156 to 169 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, subject to the reservations m…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: AUTHORISED CONSUMER DEFENCE ASSOCIATIONS

Article L811-2

Authorisation may only be granted to associations that are independent of all forms of professional activity. However, associations emanating from consumer cooperative societies, governed by the loi d…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions relating to non-pre-packaged foodstuffs

Article R412-12

…69/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers causing allergies or intolerances, and still present in the finished product…

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