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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R6123-11

The decisions of the Board of Directors relating to 8°, 9°, 10°, 11°, 13° and 19° of I of article R. 6123-8 are automatically enforceable fifteen days after they are received by the ministers responsi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Local investment funds

Article L214-31

I. - Local investment funds (fonds d'investissement de proximité) are venture capital investment funds (fonds communs de placement à risques), at least 70% of whose assets consist of financial securit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Traffic and parking regulations

Article D2213-1-0-5

I. - Within the meaning of the third paragraph of I of article L. 2213-4-1, an agglomeration is an urban unit as defined by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. II. - The…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work affecting physical or moral integrity

Article D4153-16

It is forbidden to assign young people to work that exposes them to acts or representations of a pornographic or violent nature.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: High Council for the Paramedical Professions.

Article D4381-1

Reporting to the Minister for Health, the High Council for the Paramedical Professions is responsible for : 1° To promote inter-professional debate on : a) The conditions under which the paramedical p…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory

Article L251-1

The competent administrative authority may, by reasoned decision, oblige foreign nationals whose situation is governed by this book, to leave French territory when it finds the following situations: 1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, Hospices civils de Lyon and Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille

Article R6147-1

The Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, the Hospices civils de Lyon and the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille are university hospital centres, to which the provisions of Chapter II of Title…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multiannual contract of objectives and resources

Article D5213-63-1

I.-Subject to the provisions of II, the total annual amount of aid paid to the adapted company under the financial envelope mentioned in article R. 5213-76 is calculated on the basis of a proportion o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition of the committee responsible for examining applications from pharmacists holding evidence of formal qualifications issued by a Member State of the European Union or by another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or by a third State and recognised by a Member State or a State party.

Article D4221-1

The Commission d'autorisation d'exercice, which reports to the Director General of the Centre national de gestion, is made up of two sections, one responsible for examining applications to practise as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Groupement de coopération sanitaire de moyens exploiting authorisations held by one or more of its members

Article R6133-16

When the Director General of the Agence Régionale de Santé withdraws, or does not renew, an authorisation for healthcare activities granted to one or more members and operated jointly by the Groupemen…

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