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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Constitution.

Article L322-13

The central insurance companies are public limited companies which belong to the public sector by virtue of the aforementioned law no. 46-835 of 25 April 1946 and the aforementioned law no. 73-8 of 4…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Constitution.

Article L322-12

The main purpose of the central insurance companies created by law no. 73-8 of 4 January 1973 relating to the implementation of employee shareholding in national banks and national insurance companies…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation

Article L5212-1

The syndicat de communes is a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation associating communes for works or services of inter-communal interest.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue.

Article L3262-1

The meal voucher is a special payment voucher issued by the employer to employees to enable them to pay for all or part of the cost of a meal consumed in a restaurant or purchased from a person or org…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Introduction of profit-sharing.

Article L3312-1

The purpose of profit-sharing is to involve employees collectively in the company's results or performance. It is random in nature and results from a calculation formula linked to these results or per…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Information on prices and conditions of sale

Article L112-1

Any seller of a product or any provider of a service shall inform the consumer, by means of marking, labelling, display or any other appropriate process, of the prices and specific terms and condition…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Removal from the list of jobseekers.

Article L5412-1

A person is struck off the list of jobseekers, under conditions determined by a decree of the Conseil d'Etat, if : 1° Is unable to prove that he/she has carried out positive and repeated acts with a v…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Statutory Auditors.

Article L820-3-1

The deliberations of the body mentioned in the first paragraph of I of Article L. 823-1 taken in the absence of the regular appointment of statutory auditors or on the report of statutory auditors app…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L212-1

With the exception of the complementary artist, considered as such by professional usage, the performer is the person who represents, sings, recites, declaims, plays or performs in any other way a lit…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Prior publicity

Article L3122-1

In order to encourage the widest possible competition, the concession-granting authorities shall advertise under the conditions and subject to the exceptions defined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, d…

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