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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The company pension savings plan

Article D224-12

The costs that must be borne by the employer pursuant to article L. 224-15 are : 1° Where the collective company pension savings plan gives rise to the opening of a securities account: recurring charg…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Data processing

Article R2122-12

A system for the automatic processing of personal data with a view to drawing up the electoral list for the measurement of the audience referred to in Article L. 2122-10-1, known as the "files of elec…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Funds open to professional investors

Article D744-12

I. - Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Referral by the court of the priority question of constitutionality to the Cour de cassation

Article 126-3

The judge who rules on the transfer of the priority question of constitutionality is the judge hearing the proceedings in which that question is raised, subject to the following paragraphs. The judge…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Technical and financial profit-sharing

Article A132-12

The minimum annual amount of profit-sharing is the credit balance of the profit-sharing account defined in I of article A. 132-11 for the operations mentioned in this same I. The minimum annual amount…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for authorising certain research sites

Article R1121-12

The application for authorisation is sent to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, or to the Minister of Defence when the research is carried out in places under his authority, who will…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals provided for in Article L. 464-8.

Article R464-12

The appeals provided for in article L. 464-8 shall be lodged by a written statement in triplicate lodged against a receipt at the registry of the Paris Court of Appeal containing, under penalty of nul…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Postal voting.

Article R723-12

The prefect draws up a list of voters from whom he has received the envelope in which the votes were cast. The list is closed at 6 p.m. on the eve of the counting of votes in the first ballot. Any env…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Diseases transmitted by insects

Article R3114-12

I.-The Prefect establishes, as part of the ORSEC plan mentioned inarticle L. 741-1 of the Internal Security Code, a specific plan for managing epidemics of vector-borne diseases, in the event of an es…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: The general rules booklet

Article R4251-12

In terms of waste prevention and management: - the facilities that it appears necessary to close, adapt and create are indicated; - one or more non-hazardous waste storage facilities and one or more i…

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