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Article L2261-7 of the French Labour Code

I. – The following are authorised to initiate the procedure for revising a cross-industry agreement, an agreement or a branch agreement 1° Until the end of the electoral cycle during which the agreement is concluded: a) One or more trade union organisations representing employees in the field of application of the agreement and signatories or members of the agreement ; b) One or more professional employers’ organisations which are signatories…

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Article L2261-7-1 of the French Labour Code

I. – The following are entitled to initiate the procedure for revising a company or establishment agreement: 1° Until the end of the electoral cycle during which this agreement was concluded, one or more trade union organisations representing employees in the field of application of the agreement and signatories or members of this agreement; 2° At the end of this period, one or more trade union organisations representing employees in…

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Article L2261-8 of the French Labour Code

The amendment revising all or part of an agreement or arrangement automatically replaces the stipulations of the agreement or arrangement that it amends. It may be invoked against all employers and employees bound by the agreement, in accordance with the filing conditions set out in article L. 2231-6.

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Article L2261-9 of the French Labour Code

The open-ended agreement may be terminated by the signatory parties. In the absence of express stipulation, the period of notice that must precede termination is three months. The other signatories of the agreement are notified of the denunciation by its author. It is deposited under conditions laid down by regulation.

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Article L2261-10 of the French Labour Code

Where the denunciation is made by all the signatory employers or all the signatory employees, the agreement or arrangement continues to have effect until the entry into force of the agreement or arrangement which replaces it or, failing that, for a period of one year from the expiry of the notice period, unless a clause provides for a longer fixed period. New negotiations shall begin, at the request of one…

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Article L2261-11 of the French Labour Code

Where the denunciation is made by only some of the signatory employers or signatory employees, it does not prevent the agreement from remaining in force between the other signatory parties. In this case, the provisions of the agreement or arrangement continue to have effect in respect of the parties who have given notice of termination until the entry into force of the agreement or arrangement which replaces it or, failing…

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Article L2261-12 of the French Labour Code

When the denunciation of a branch agreement or a professional or interprofessional agreement comes from a single signatory organisation, either for the employers’ side or for the employees’ side, concerning a territorial or professional sector included in the field of application of the denounced text, this field of application is modified accordingly.

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Article L2261-13 of the French Labour Code

When the agreement or contract which has been terminated has not been replaced by a new agreement or contract within one year of the expiry of the notice period, the employees of the companies concerned benefit from a guaranteed remuneration, the annual amount of which, for a working period equivalent to that provided for in their contract of employment, may not be less than the remuneration paid, in application of…

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Article L2261-14 of the French Labour Code

Where the application of an agreement or arrangement is called into question in a given undertaking, in particular as a result of a merger, transfer, demerger or change of activity, that agreement or arrangement shall continue to have effect until the entry into force of the agreement or arrangement which replaces it or, failing that, for a period of one year from the expiry of the notice period provided for…

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Article L2261-14-1 of the French Labour Code

The loss of the status of representative organisation of all the trade union organisations that are signatories to a collective agreement or arrangement does not entail the calling into question of that agreement or arrangement.

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