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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Companies with fifty or more employees.

Article L2143-5

In companies with at least two thousand employees and at least two establishments with at least fifty employees each, each representative trade union in the company may appoint a central company trade…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors.

Article R1413-5

The Chairman of the Board of Directors is appointed for a term of four years, renewable once. This provision shall not prevent the Chairman from holding a directorship before or after his term of offi…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Principles

Article R212-5

The provisions of…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter III: Public contracts concluded by a contracting authority

Article L2513-5

The same rules apply to public contracts concluded by a contracting authority to carry out the activity of a network operator which are subject to articles L. 2514-1 to L. 2514-4 or become so pursuant…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Information for foreign nationals

Article R613-5

A foreign national who is granted a period of voluntary departure is informed that the administrative authority may terminate it if a reason for refusing this period appears after it has been notified…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title VI: Criminal provisions

Article R162-5

I. - Any employee of : 1° of a credit institution, La Poste, an electronic money institution, a payment institution, one of their agents, a person referred to in Article L. 525-8 or a bureau de change…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Discharge from hospital.

Article R1112-57

Subject to the provisions of article L. 1111-5 or any decisions by the judicial authority, minors may only be entrusted to persons exercising parental authority or to third parties expressly authorise…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Composition

Article L2363-5

The members of the Committee of the European Cooperative Society representing the staff of the participating entities, subsidiaries and establishments concerned located in France are appointed in acco…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for maintaining sites

Article R6222-5

I.-When one or more medical biology laboratory sites created before the revision of the regional health plan or before the change in the delimitation of the zones defined in b of 2° of Article L. 1434…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-50-1

Without prejudice to the provisions of 2° of Article R. 5121-50, each year the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé publishes on its website the list of medicinal produc…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
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