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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Banknotes and coins

Article D122-3

The rules for exchanging mutilated or damaged banknotes are set out in the Decision of the European Central Bank of 20 March 2003 on the denominations, specifications, reproduction, exchange and withd…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementation

Article L7332-3

The remuneration of an entrepreneur-employee member of a cooperative of activity and employment includes a fixed part and a variable part calculated according to the turnover of his activity, after de…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Definitions.

Article L7412-3

When home workers work in the same premises to perform complementary tasks, they acquire the status of workshop employees. These provisions do not apply when the homeworker works with his or her spous…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Establishment

Article R1422-3

Each of the bodies or authorities mentioned in article R. 1422-2 is deemed to have given a favourable opinion if it has not given its opinion within three months of the matter being referred to it.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: The Competition Authority.

Article R462-3

The adversarial procedure provided for in Article L. 462-3 includes the notification of a report by the general rapporteur to the parties involved before the court, to the Government Commissioner to t…

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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

The conditions of adoption are subject to the national law of the adopter or, in the case of adoption by a couple, to the common national law of the two members of the couple on the day on which the a…

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

Article 322-3

The aid is awarded in the form of a grant.The aid is covered by an agreement with the beneficiary.

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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

Simple adoption confers 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…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 361

The relationship 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…

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