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Showing 40214030 of 11457 articles for Art. Rép. Kamowski: AN 25-12-2018 n° 13638

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: External company health, safety and working conditions committee.

Article R4514-9

Before the work begins, if a staff representative on the social and economic committee is to be part of the team working in the user undertaking and the committee intends to take part in the prior joi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: External company health, safety and working conditions committee.

Article R4514-8

The social and economic committee of the external company shall, if it deems it necessary, appoint one or more of its members belonging to the staff delegation to take part in inspections and periodic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: User company health, safety and working conditions committee.

Article R4514-7

Where there may be risks associated with interference between the activities, installations and equipment of different companies, the social and economic committee of the user company shall, as part o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title I: Provisions relating to Book I

Article 2494

Article 2493 is applicable under the conditions set out in Article 17-2. However, articles 21-7 and 21-11 are applicable to a child born in Mayotte to foreign parents before the entry into force of th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Changes to the basis of an application for divorce

Article 247-2

If the plaintiff files for divorce on the grounds of permanent impairment of the marriage bond and the defendant counterclaims for divorce on the grounds of fault, the plaintiff may invoke the faults…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Changes to the basis of an application for divorce

Article 247-1

The spouses may also, at any stage of the proceedings, when divorce has been requested on the grounds of definitive alteration of the marital bond or on the grounds of fault, ask the judge to record t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Changes to the basis of an application for divorce

Article 247

The spouses may, at any time during the proceedings: 1° Divorce by mutual consent by private-signature deed countersigned by lawyers, filed with a notary; 2° In the case provided for in 1° of Article…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Use of life cycle costing as an award criterion

Article R2152-9

Life cycle costing covers, insofar as they are relevant, all or some of the following costs in the life cycle of a product, service or work:1° Costs borne by the purchaser or other users, such as :a)…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Use of life cycle costing as an award criterion

Article R2152-10

…life-cycle approach, it shall indicate in the tender documents the data to be provided by tenderers and the method it will use to determine the life-cycle cost on the basis of those data.The method us…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article R122-31

…ned in the first paragraph of I of article L. 122-5-5 shall publish the following information in advance on their website, in a dedicated and identifiable section: -the terms of the reasonable investi…

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