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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishments and organisations authorised to combat tuberculosis

Article D3112-10

The Regional Health Agency is responsible for the strategic planning, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the activities of approved centres. The tuberculosis centres approved under the condition…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article D6362-21

When the initial budgets for the financial years during which the deficit is to be absorbed do not show sufficient measures for this absorption, the territorial audit chamber, to which these budgets h…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Identification and lists of members of the profession of pharmacist.

Article D4221-23

On the basis of the information communicated to it by the competent councils, the national council sends the Minister for Health and the body designated for this purpose by order a weekly update of th…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Reimbursement by the employer.

Article D5424-25

The company is reimbursed by the paid leave funds for the allowances paid to its employees under the legislation on bad weather, which are calculated by allocating to the amount of each allowance paid…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Coverage of professionalisation contracts

Article D6332-86

In the absence of a fixed amount for reimbursement as provided for in article D. 6332-85, this amount is set at 9.15 euros per hour or, when it relates to contracts concluded with the persons mentione…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to medical biology laboratories authorised in France

Article D6221-26

Each time a change is made to one of the elements listed in Article D. 6221-24, the declaration provided for in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 6211-2 as it read prior to the entry into force of Or…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Implementation measures

Article 342

The conditions for the layout of distilleries, the measures to ensure that distillers are taken in charge and their obligations, in particular those resulting from articles L. 26 and L. 32 du livre de…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health rules applicable to swimming pools

Article D1332-10

I.-The person responsible for the swimming pool organises and implements the monitoring of the establishment's installations, water treatment system and air ventilation system. To this end, they draw…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-41

…r of scenes; 2° "French-speaking country" means any member state of the Organisation internationale de la francophonie and Algeria; 3° "European country" means a Member State of the European Union, a…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-40

Compliance with the condition set out in b of 1 of II of article 220 quaterdecies of the General Tax Code is verified using the points scales set out in this paragraph, each made up of a "Dramatic con…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
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