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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Employment contract.

Article L5134-24

The employment contract, combined with aid for professional integration granted under an employment support contract, is an employment contract under private law, either for a fixed term, concluded in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Temporary employment agencies.

Article L6325-24

An agreement, concluded at professional branch level between the representative organisations of employers and employees in the temporary work sector and the State, may provide for part of the funds a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Contributions and taxes

Article L2564-24

Sont applicables à Mayotte à compter du 1er janvier 2014:1° Le chapitre II du titre III du livre III de la présente partie;2° Les sections 7, 8, 11, 14 et 15 du chapitre III du même titre;3° L'article…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Extension and enlargement procedures.

Article L2261-24

The procedure for extending a branch agreement or a professional or cross-industry agreement is initiated at the request of one of the representative employers' or employees' organisations mentioned i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions.

Article L5212-24

Where there is an inter-municipal syndicate exercising the competence of organising authority for the public distribution of electricity mentioned in article L. 2224-31, the communal share, provided f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment of training costs

Article L6323-24

The account may be used by jobseekers looking for work in a European Union Member State other than France if they are not registered with the institution mentioned in article L. 5312-1, subject to the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-24

The owner of the patent may at any time either renounce the patent in its entirety or one or more claims, or limit the scope of the patent by amending one or more claims.The request for renunciation o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions specific to the departments of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin.

Article L1226-24

A sales clerk who, as a result of an accident for which he is not at fault, is unable to perform his employment contract is entitled to his salary for a maximum period of six weeks.During this period,…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Specific procedures for group actions in the field of competition

Article L623-24

Where the breaches of which the trader is accused concern compliance with the rules defined in Title II of Book IV of the Commercial Code or Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L526-24

I. - Within the limits of the activity of issuing and managing electronic money that it is authorised to carry on in the territory of its home country other than France, and depending on the authorisa…

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