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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy

Article D3121-36

The request of an employee who has entered into a fixed number of days agreement to work reduced hours, in application ofarticle L. 3121-60-1, shall be sent to the employer by registered letter with a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing and administrative control.

Article D3313-3

When the agreement providing for employee profit-sharing in the company is based on a calculation formula that takes into account the results of one or more affiliated companies, within the meaning of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 9: Communication to the Agency of information covered by medical or industrial secrecy

Article R1413-37

When, in the exercise of the warning mission entrusted to the National Public Health Agency by 6° of Article L. 1413-1, the transmission of information covered by medical or industrial confidentiality…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and operation

Article R1435-35

The Conseil national de pilotage des agences régionales de santé is responsible for controlling and monitoring the management of the fund. To this end, it receives, each year before 31 May, the report…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Deductions from apprenticeship tax

Article D6241-32

The total amount of expenditure that may be deducted under article D. 6142-29 may not exceed a ceiling of 10% of the main part of the apprenticeship tax mentioned in I of article L. 6241-2 due for the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation of cooperatives of activity and employment

Article R7331-3

The employee-entrepreneur contract referred to in 2° of Article L. 7331-2 defines the conditions under which the employee-entrepreneur benefits, per twelve-month period, from at least two individual s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Educational assistance

Article 375-7

The father and mother of a child benefiting from an educational assistance measure continue to exercise all the attributes of parental authority that are not irreconcilable with this measure. They may…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Voluntary appearance and summons

Article 390-1

The summons to appear in person is equivalent to the summons to appear in court served on the accused, on the instructions of the public prosecutor and within the time limits laid down by article 552,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Public health policy coordination committees

Article D1442-3

The following are members of the Coordination Commission for Prevention, School Health, Occupational Health and Maternal and Child Protection in Guadeloupe, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin:1° The Di…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-3

Any technical file accompanying the application for authorisation must include the following information: 1° A list of the persons whom the applicant proposes to authorise to contribute, under his aut…

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