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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Approval of sectoral collective agreements

Article L7343-50

…tforms Social Relations Authority, at the request of one of the organisations mentioned in Articles L. 7343-4 and L. 7343-24. Upon receipt of this request, the Employment Platforms Labour Relations Au…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Geographical indications protecting industrial and craft products

Article L721-5

…nd published in the Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle in accordance with 5° of Article L. 721-6. For the purposes of this section, an operator means any natural or legal person who takes…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions adapting Book IV.

Article L924-5

The last paragraph of III of article L. 442-5 is replaced by the following four paragraphs: "The investigating judge or the court hearing the case may order the advertising to cease, either at the req…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Referral to the civil or administrative courts

Article L524-5

A Conseil d'Etat decree sets out the terms and conditions for applying articles L. 524-1 to L. 524-4.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Agreements to prevent the effects of exposure to certain occupational risk factors

Article L4162-5

…ll or part of the points registered in the account for the purposes mentioned in 1° of I of article L. 4162-4, these points are converted into euros to fund the personal training account provided for…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Equal treatment with full-time employees

Article L3123-5

…she had been employed on a full-time basis, with periods not worked being taken into account in full. The redundancy payment and the retirement payment for an employee who has been employed full-time…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting cases of poisoning

Article L1340-5

…induced by a substance or mixture for which they have transmitted information pursuant to articles L. 1341-1 and L. 1342-1, and shall keep the information in their possession.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Health protection and the environment.

Article L1523-5

Articles L. 1321-1 , L. 1321-10 and L. 1322-14 are applicable in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the version resulting from Order no. 2022-1611 of 22 December 2022.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Administrative penalties.

Article L8272-5

Failure to comply with the administrative decisions referred to in the third paragraph of article L. 8272-1 and in articles L. 8272-2 or L. 8272-4 is punishable by two months' imprisonment and a fine…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Individual employers.

Article L6331-57

…% of remuneration for the reference year: 1° Employees of individual employers mentioned in article L. 7221-1; 2° Maternal assistants mentioned in L. 421-1 of the…

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