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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reserving contracts for economic operators employing disabled and disadvantaged workers

Article L2113-12

…structures, where they employ a minimum proportion, set by regulation, of disabled workers who, due to the nature or severity of their impairments, are unable to work under normal conditions.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Calculation of sums entered in the automatic online broadcast account

Article 612-12

The turnover declared for each cinematographic work refers to the amount, excluding value added tax, of the sums received by the publisher of on-demand audiovisual media services for dematerialised ac…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the Board of Directors of the joint association

Article R2135-12

The Chairman of the Association is appointed by the Board of Directors, for a two-year term, alternately from among the representatives of the employee trade union organisations and the representative…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-12

The provisions of this sub-section apply to any removal of organs, tissues or cells and any collection of products carried out with a view to their use or that of their derivatives for therapeutic pur…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Principles of organisation and operation of the body reception facility

Article R1261-12

…ns, staff who work in operating theatres under the supervision of the former, and people who intend to practise these professions. The participation of an entity outside the authorised establishment,…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Hospitality certificates

Article R313-12

Any contentious appeal against a refusal to validate a reception certificate must be preceded, on pain of inadmissibility, by an administrative appeal to the territorially competent prefect, within tw…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Help with training and professional integration

Article L5134-122

…local public agricultural education and vocational training establishments that conclude contracts to recruit a student under a future teacher's job benefit from financial aid and exemptions determin…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Help with training and professional integration

Article L5134-124

…id defined in Article L. 5134-123 is granted for a period of twelve months, renewable each year, up to a total period of thirty-six months, without being able to exceed the term of the employment cont…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Help with training and professional integration

Article L5134-123

…n describes the content of the proposed post, its position in the organisation of the establishment to which the student is assigned and the skills that the student is expected to acquire during the t…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Risk assessment

Article R4453-12

A joint order by the ministers for labour and agriculture specifies the conditions for measuring, calculating and digitally simulating electromagnetic field levels.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
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