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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article L613-25

…administrator or liquidator has been appointed for a credit institution in accordance with Articles L. 612-34 and L. 613-24, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, after obtaining t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Delegation hours.

Article L2143-16

…five hundred employees ;2° Eighteen hours per year in companies with at least one thousand employees.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Substitute team.

Article L3132-16

In industries or industrial undertakings, a company or establishment agreement or, failing that, an extended collective labour agreement may stipulate that operational staff work in two groups, one of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the implementation of a resolution measure

Article L613-56

…nditional convertible instruments by the following persons 1° The persons mentioned in I of Article L. 613-34 subject to a resolution procedure ; 2° A parent institution in a Member State, a parent in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Metropolitan France

Article L5217-19

…vices of the communes that participate in the exercise of the competences mentioned in I of Article L. 5217-2 are transferred to the metropolitan authority, in accordance with the terms and conditions…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions.

Article L8224-3

Natural persons guilty of the offences provided for in articles L. 8224-1 and L. 8224-2 are liable to the following additional penalties: 1° Prohibition, in accordance with the provisions of article 1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Organisation of the departmental- metropolitan fire and rescue service

Article L1424-74

…Chairman's term of office expires when the new Board of Directors is installed following its renewal.The officers of the Board of Directors consist of the Chairman, three Vice-Chairmen and, if necess…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Merger

Article L236-10

…and subject to the incompatibilities with regard to the participating companies set out in Article L. 822-11-3, draw up, under their responsibility, a written report on the terms of the merger.The me…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Powers

Article L5215-22

…e of the communes that are members of the community for the competences referred to in I of Article L. 5215-20 that the syndicate exercises, with the exception of the competences whose exercise is org…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1227-1

…ts to disclose a manufacturing secret is liable to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros.The court may also impose, as an additional penalty and for a maximum period of five years, a ban…

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