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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Agents

Article L523-5

For the purposes of Article L. 511-33, I of Article L. 522-19, Article L. 526-35, the last paragraph of Article L. 571-4 and Article L. 572-7, agents are treated in the same way as persons employed by…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Delivery terms

Article R2351-6

…ntees confidentiality. If several tenders are successively submitted by the same tenderer, only the last tender received by the purchaser within the deadline set for the submission of tenders will be…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Statutory audit.

Article L823-3-2

…23-3, where the statutory auditor is appointed by a company voluntarily or pursuant to the first or last paragraphs of article L. 823-2-2, the company may decide to limit the term of office to three f…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Article R615-26

…within which the conciliation proposal is drawn up shall run from the date on which the matter was last referred to the commission.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1126-1

…he principle of divorce may not be made before the expiry of the one-year period and subject to the last paragraph of article 238.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1062

…t within whose jurisdiction the person whose presumption of absence is to be established resides or last resided.Failing this, the competent judge shall be that of the judicial court of the place wher…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 801

…ided by a provision of criminal procedure for the performance of an act or formality expires on the last day at twenty-four hours. Any time limit that would normally expire on a Saturday or Sunday or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R711-36

…he economic survey referred to in Article R. 713-66, and which was submitted to the prefect for the last general renewal, is equal to or greater than 10,000.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article R2123-22

…loyees of the State, local authorities and their public administrative establishments. However, the last two paragraphs of article R. 2123-20 do not apply to serving military personnel.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Mayotte Regional Health Agency

Article D1446-17

…ws: 1° The words: "the specialised commissions mentioned in article D. 1432-31" are deleted. 2° The last paragraph is worded as follows: The elected Chairman of the Regional Conference on Health and A…

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