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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Regional committees.

Article R4643-19

The Organisme Professionnel de Prévention du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics comprises regional prevention committees responsible, in particular, for: 1° Carrying out actions to improve hygiene, healt…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Declaration, registration of activity and withdrawal of registration

Article R7232-19

The legal entity or sole trader who has made a declaration must produce a statement of activity at least every quarter and a qualitative and quantitative annual report on the activity carried out over…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Supplementary provisions

Article D3121-19

Compulsory time off may be taken as a full day or half day at the employee's convenience. It is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of calculating the employee's entitlement. It gives…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to secure electronic devices enabling a dematerialised official report to be drawn up

Article A37-19-1

In the event of a claim brought before the competent court, the report drawn up with the device provided for in Article A. 37-19 is, at the request of the authority to which the complaint is made, pri…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Declaration of public interest and protection perimeter

Article R1322-19

The municipal council of each municipality in which the requested protection perimeter is located is asked to give its opinion on the application, as soon as the public enquiry is opened. Only opinion…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Other transactions

Article R721-19

…e-mer may grant credit institutions and other market participants advances secured by appropriate collateral.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Communication of information between temporary employment agencies and user undertakings

Article R4625-19

The information required to carry out occupational medicine duties for temporary workers is communicated by the temporary employment undertaking to the user undertaking and to the other temporary empl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation.

Article R4381-19

A member may, on condition that he informs the company by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, cease his professional activity within the company. He must comply with the deadline set by…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Decision by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons

Article R531-19

…e date of notification of the decision of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons which appears in the Office's information system, and which is communicated to the comp…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Delegation of territorial chambers of commerce and industry

Article R711-19

The delegation is made up of members of the territorial chamber of commerce and industry whose activity or the business they represent is located in the delegation's constituency and who have been ide…

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