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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors.

Article R4642-5

…Directors is placed on the agenda. The members of the Board of Directors mentioned in I of article R. 4642-3 each have one vote. Each member of the Board of Directors may give a proxy to another memb…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Involvement of the guarantee fund

Article R421-51

…que française of the order declaring the portfolio transfer and the assets accompanying this transfer. The transferee company must submit this request within four months of publication of the decision…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Definition and status.

Article R121-5

The single body mentioned in article R. 123-1 receives, under the conditions laid down in this book:1° In the single declaration file for setting up the business, where applicable, the declaration of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Postal voting.

Article R713-52

…es used to send the votes corresponds to that shown on the summary statement referred to in Article R. 713-50. If a discrepancy is noted, this is noted in the minutes initialled by each member of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-51

The declaration is made up of a letter signed by the legal representative of the applicant organisation and a supporting file, entered using a teleservice. The letter describes the activity and certif…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition and technical organisation of sectors.

Article R3221-5

…authority of a hospital psychiatrist appointed in accordance with the procedures set out in article R. 3221-4 and assisted by a multidisciplinary team from the hospital centre to which it is attached.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: EC declaration of conformity, product quality assurance.

Article R5211-50

…nce, for class II a medical devices or class I medical devices, the provisions laid down in Article R. 5211-49 apply subject to the following modifications: 1° For class II a medical devices, the auth…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition

Article R6156-51

…nistration informs, within a period of three days, the union of trade unions to which the lists refer. The latter then has a period of five days to indicate to the administration, by any means conferr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-511-1

Assistants must have completed at least two years of full-time service before they can be recruited as part-time hospital assistants. An assistant who has worked full-time or part-time for six years m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-508-1

…ful and to apply, as soon as he is included on the list of suitable candidates mentioned in article R. 6152-308, for a position as a hospital practitioner in the establishment with which he has signed…

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