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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Specific provisions relating to assignment subledgers

Article R342-9-1

The technical provisions corresponding to the operations of supplementary professional retirement funds subject to the auxiliary allocation accounting mentioned in Article L. 381-2 are those mentioned…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Fees for procedures

Article A444-5

…article A. 444-1:1° Number 2 (purely descriptive inventory);2° Number 3 (inventory reconciliation);3° Number 6 (assistance with summary proceedings and registration of the order);4° Number 7 (assista…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Specific powers.

Article R4523-1

…r to temporary employees; 2° Workstations intended to be occupied by the establishment's employees; 3° Workstations whose tasks require the presence of at least two qualified persons.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article R5122-22

…s, the data in the data processing system may only be used for the purposes mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of article R. 5122-20, by employees of the administrations and bodies mentioned below, designated…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: The automated national registry of judicial procedures and the automated processing system known as "Cassiopée".

Article R15-33-66-8

…tants mentioned in Article L. 123-4 of the same code, who assist the magistrates referred to in 1°; 3° Registry officers assigned to a single reception service for litigants, individually designated a…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Designation of the country of return

Article R721-2

…mposing an obligation to leave French territory; or 2° A ban on returning to French territory;> and 3° The implementation of a decision taken by another State; 4° A ban on movement on French territory…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D4311-55-1

The conseil national de l'ordre shall determine which of the duties mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 4125-3-1 give rise to the payment of a responsibility allowance. It shall set the am…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Working conditions and organisation of service obligations

Article R6153-1

This sub-section applies to postgraduate students who complete phase 3, known as the consolidation phase, referred to in articles R. 632-20 and D. 633-11 of the Education Code of medical studies, phar…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: CASES IN WHICH A FOREIGNER MAY BE THE SUBJECT OF AN EXPULSION DECISION

Article L631-3

…enty years; > A foreign national who has been legally resident in France for more than twenty years 3° A foreign national who has been legally resident in France for more than ten years and who has be…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN THE WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS

Article R834-3

…he Wallis and Futuna Islands; 2° In Article R. 810-1, the reference to Article R. 812-1 is deleted; 3° Article R. 821-2 reads as follows: "Art. R. 821-2.-The services competent to carry out the contro…

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