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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Help with professional integration

Article R5134-32

…maximum duration of the aid for professional integration, set at twenty-four months by article L. 5134-23, may be extended, pursuant to the first paragraph of article L. 5134-23-1, for the remaining d…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Agreements with host companies

Article D6325-30

In application of the second paragraph of article L. 6325-2, the employee may not spend more than half of the training time in a company other than the one employing him under the professionalisation…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Mission of emergency medical services.

Article R6311-3

…ch Internal Security Code. To carry out the tasks defined in the first paragraph and in article R. 6311-2, the regional health agency may entrust an interdepartmental or regional coordination role to…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-6

…r made available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service within the last ten years; 3° Writing or directing two audiovisual works of fiction, animation or creative documentary that hav…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R1313-3

The network referred to in Article R. 1313-1 includes, in particular:1° The French Environment and Energy Management Agency ;2° The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 6: Financial guarantee.

Article R211-31

…ay by bailiff's writ or registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, followed by refusal or remaining without effect for a period of forty-five days from service of the summons. In the event of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Patents for invention

Article L614-33

…he subject of the supplementary exploitation certificate the request provided for in Article L. 614-32 of this Code, filed within four working days of notification of the withholding referred to in th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-35

…rticular cables and the corresponding design and engineering costs. It shall be responsible for the maintenance of its equipment. An order of the ministers responsible for electronic communications an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-36

Extradition obtained by the French Government shall be null and void if it has taken place outside the conditions provided for in this chapter. Immediately after the extradited person is taken into cu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Register of security interests and other related transactions

Article R521-32

For the consultation, the applicant shall indicate the following: 1° Concerning the owner of the property referred to in 5° of article R. 521-6 or, in the absence of property, the debtor: a) If it con…

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