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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-13

When a sports agent forms a company to exercise his profession, its managers, partners or shareholders are subject to the incompatibilities and incapacities set out in articles L. 222-9 to L. 222-11.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation and penalties.

Article L1226-16

The indemnities provided for in articles L. 1226-14 and L. 1226-15 are calculated on the basis of the average salary that the person concerned would have received over the last three months if he had…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Control of plant and animal species harmful to human health

Article L1338-1

Subject to articles L. 3114-5 and L. 3114-7, a decree, issued after consultation with the Haut Conseil de la santé publique, the Conseil national de la protection de la nature and the Conseil national…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L1333-27

The requirements, means and measures for the protection of workers' health from ionising radiation taken in application of this chapter and chapter VII of this title concern the collective protection…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Combating the presence of lead

Article L1334-12

The procedures for implementing this section, and in particular : 1° The procedures for transmitting the data provided for in article L. 1334-1 and in particular the way in which anonymity is protecte…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Provisions relating to the preparation of preventive resolution plans

Article L311-9

The resolution college shall notify the supervisory college of the plans it has drawn up or updated pursuant to Article L. 311-8. The resolution college shall communicate, as the case may be, to the p…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Provisions applicable in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories

Article L3428-1

The following provisions are applicable in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands to concession contracts entered into by the State or its public establishments as well as by other public and private…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Protection of technical knowledge

Article L621-1

The penalties for violating trade secrets are set out in Article L. 1227-1 of the Labour Code, reproduced below: "Art. L. 1227-1- The fact of a director or an employee revealing or attempting to revea…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title IV: FRAUD

Article L441-3

Any technique, including software, by which a marketer aims to make it impossible to repair or recondition an appliance or to limit the restoration of the full functionality of such an appliance outsi…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IX: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L591-5

For the application of this book in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, in Articles L. 552-6 and L. 552-7, the reference to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard…

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