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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-26

I. - An open-ended investment company (société d'investissement à capital variable) or a management company acting on behalf of all the UCITS it manages shall not acquire shares carrying voting rights…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Mobility vouchers

Article R3261-13-5

I.-The authorisation provided for in Article L. 3261-7 is issued by the Minister for Transport to companies that can prove they supply or market the goods or services mentioned in Articles L. 3261-3 a…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating licences

Article R3332-4-1

On completion of the training referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 3332-1-1, the approved body will issue a certificate, known as an "operating licence", to the persons who have taken it,…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of the admissibility decision

Article L722-13

As from the decision that the claim is admissible, the thirty-day period referred to in second paragraph of Article L. 113-3 of the French Insurance Code, where applicable, is extended to one hundred…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Employment contract.

Article L5134-70

By way of derogation from the provisions relating to termination before the end of the fixed-term employment contract set out in article L. 1243-2, the Employment Initiative Contract may be terminated…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Competent authority.

Article R1123-41

The sponsor shall inform the National Commission for Research Involving the Human Person and the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products without delay of situations in which it…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Authorisation decisions

Article R1333-127

The authorisation to manufacture or use a high activity sealed source sets out in particular:1° Requirements relating to the organisation of radiation protection and the allocation of responsibilities…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Qualifying conditions

Article A742-16

No one may sit the oral admission tests unless they have been declared eligible by the selection board.The admission tests comprise:1° A fifteen-minute oral examination on civil and commercial law;2°…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Common provisions

Article R4361-17

The committee of hearing-aid acousticians for the region designated by order of the Minister for Health comprises :1° The Regional Director for Youth, Sport and Social Cohesion or his/her representati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Common provisions

Article R4362-6

The commission of opticians in the region designated by order of the Minister for Health comprises :1° The Regional Director for Youth, Sport and Social Cohesion or his/her representative, as Chairman…

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