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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Management of the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service (R)

Article R1424-20-1

…partmental director of fire and rescue services, the agents occupying the posts mentioned in 3° and 4° of article R. 1424-19 ensure the management of their sub-directorates and groupings under the con…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Representativeness criteria

Article R2151-1

For the application of 4° to 6° of article L. 2151-1, a professional employers' organisation resulting from the grouping of pre-existing professional employers' organisations may rely on all the eleme…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: The Executive Council and the Chairman of the Executive Council

Article R4422-2

Articles R. 4135-1 to R. 4135-8 are applicable to the President and members of the Corsican Executive Council. For the application of article R. 4135-4, the duration of the hours credited for one quar…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: First and second category operations.

Article R4532-73

…ing conditions; 2° The members of the social and economic committee; 3° The occupational physician; 4° The labour inspectorate; 5° The prevention department of the social security bodies; 6° The profe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions

Article R3826-1

Articles R. 3116-1, R. 3116-2, R. 3116-3, R. 3116-4 and R. 3116-5 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in the version resulting from Decree no. 2018-42 of 25 January 2018. Articles R. 3116-16 and R. 31…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and agreements

Article R5131-1

…s in accessing employment; 2° The long-term unemployed; 3° Unemployed people over the age of fifty; 4° People receiving the minimum integration income; 5° Disabled people.

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Holders of the state diploma.

Article D4332-3

…cess to studies leading to the State diploma, the admission procedures and the nature of the tests; 4° The procedures for the tests leading to the award of the diploma.

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks and activities

Article R5126-22

…preparations; 2° Magistral preparations; 3° Preparations of radiopharmaceutical medicinal products; 4° Reconstitutions of proprietary medicinal products.

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General powers

Article R6144-1-1

…on the establishment's activities; 2° Division contracts 3° The annual review of the duty rosters; 4° The nursing, re-education and medico-technical care project; 5° The planning of works, the fittin…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Fonds de compensation des risques de l'assurance de la construction.

Article R431-51

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance is assisted in the management of the compensation fund by an advisory committee chaired by a magistrate of the Cour des Com…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
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