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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Eligibility criteria.

Article L5422-2-2

The conditions of previous activity for opening or topping up entitlements and the duration of entitlement to insurance benefits may be adjusted to take account of cyclical indicators on employment an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-2-2

Without prejudice to any criminal proceedings that may be brought, where a veterinary medicinal product is placed on the market or used without having obtained the prior authorisation or registration…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Tasks and scope of application

Article L612-2

…The following personsa) Investment firms and branches of third-country firms referred to in Article L. 532-48 ; b) Market undertakings;c) Members of clearing houses other than the persons mentioned in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L532-22

…olution and the Autorité des marchés financiers in exercising the powers vested in them by Articles L. 532-19 to L. 532-21-3. This decree determines, in particular, the procedures for informing the co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Possibilities for grouping company pension savings plans

Article L224-27

Notwithstanding article L. 224-20, when a collective company retirement savings plan is set up, the company may decide, under the conditions mentioned in article L. 224-14, to set up compulsory paymen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contributions to the account.

Article L6323-25

…nanced in accordance with the procedures for distributing the contribution provided for in articles L. 6331-48, L. 6331-53 and L. 6331-65 of this code and in article L. 718-2-1 of the rural and mariti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health establishments responsible for psychiatric care without consent.

Article L3222-2

When a patient hospitalised in an establishment other than those mentioned in article L. 3222-1 is suffering from a mental disorder as defined either in I of article L. 3212-1 or in article L. 3213-1,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Managing Director

Article L1432-2

…al of the Regional Health Agency exercises, on behalf of the State, the powers mentioned in article L. 1431-2 which are not assigned to another authority.Where applicable, he shall exercise throughout…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Financial provisions.

Article L2512-28

I.-For the application of articles L. 2334-7, L. 2531-13, L. 3334-3 and L. 3335-4, the share of actual operating revenue and actual operating expenditure taken into account for the City of Paris are d…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Operation of the company

Article L4042-2

…ties provided for in the company's articles of association under the conditions set out in articles L. 1142-1 to L. 1142-2.

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