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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Purchases by French companies from French suppliers in competition with a foreign company receiving official export support

Article R442-10-8

The granting of the guarantee is subject to compliance by the purchasing French company with all of the following criteria: 1° It has, for at least one of the two financial years preceding the issue o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article L1251-3

Any temporary employment activity outside such an undertaking is prohibited, subject to the provisions relating to non-profit labour lending operations authorised by article L. 8241-2.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article L1251-1

The purpose of temporary work is for a temporary employment agency to make an employee available on a temporary basis to a client for the purpose of carrying out an assignment.Each assignment gives ri…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article L1251-4

Notwithstanding the principle of exclusivity set out in Article L. 1251-2, temporary employment agencies may engage in : 1° Private placement activities as provided for in Article L. 5321-1; 2° The ac…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article L1251-2

A temporary work contractor is any natural or legal person whose sole activity is to make employees available on a temporary basis to user companies, whom it recruits and remunerates on the basis of a…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Public contracts concluded in application of international rules

Article L2512-2

The same rules apply to public contracts concluded:1° in accordance with the procedure specific to an international organisation when the public contract is entirely financed by this international org…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Public contracts concluded in application of international rules

Article L2512-1

The rules defined in Title II apply to public contracts which must be concluded in accordance with the procedures laid down by : 1° An international agreement or administrative arrangement relating to…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

Article L512-17

Authorised agents may call on the services of any qualified person appointed by the administrative authority to which they report.This person may accompany them during their inspections. This person m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Subcontracting of preparations to a pharmaceutical manufacturing establishment

Article R5125-33-3

I.-The categories of magistral preparations that may be subcontracted by a dispensing pharmacy to a pharmaceutical establishment authorised to manufacture medicinal products are : 1° Preparations obta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Certification and publication of the accounts of trade unions and professional organisations

Article L2135-6

Professional trade unions of employers, their unions and employers' associations mentioned in Article L. 2135-1 that wish to establish their representativeness on the basis of Title V of this Book I a…

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