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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Control

Article R5132-1-13

The Departmental Directorate for Employment, Labour and Solidarity sends the structure concerned the list of persons declared eligible for the check and the supporting documents requested using the te…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Application of collective bargaining agreements

Article 122-11

The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée ensures that beneficiaries of financial aid comply with their obligations regarding the application of collective labour agreements to which they are…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Vigilance relating to health products

Article R1413-61-1

…to health products includes haemovigilance, pharmacovigilance, addictovigilance, materialovigilance and reactovigilance, as provided for in articles L. 1221-13, L. 5121-22, L. 5133-1, L. 5212-2 and L.…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Measures to assist production companies

Article 917-1

…the period of restriction of the hours of reception of the public, by derogation to articles 916-1 and 916-2, the rates of calculation of the sums representing the automatic financial aids to which t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Introduction of a foreign worker.

Article L5221-2-1

…y of derogation from article L. 5221-2, the following are not subject to the condition laid down in 2° of the same article L. 5221-2: 1° Foreign nationals who enter France in order to work for a perio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Application for approval

Article R1253-20

The application for approval must be accompanied by the information and documents listed at 1° to 5° of article D. 1253-1, as well as the collective agreement that the employers' group intends to appl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Funeral and burial regulations

Article D2213-1-1-3

…o issue death certificates from the second year of their skills consolidation course, by delegation and under the responsibility of the practitioner to whom they report.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Amendment procedures

Article R1322-12

…holder of an operating licence must declare to the Prefect any project to modify the installations and operating conditions mentioned in the prefectoral authorisation order and send him all the infor…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Amendment procedures

Article R1322-13

…analyses.The provisional authorisation can only be granted if the water comes from the same deposit and if there are no significant differences in the characteristics of the water. If the Prefect rema…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Amendment procedures

Article R1322-14

…proposal from the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, or at the request of the operator and in accordance with the procedure laid down inarticle R. 1322-6, issue an order amending the auth…

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