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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of the agreement.

Article R6142-35

…be taken on this request shall take account of the requirements of the service and existing vacancies. The person concerned may be transferred in accordance with the conditions laid down in his Staff…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of the agreement.

Article R6142-38

…ents from the university hospital centre may be assigned to the organisation party to the agreement with their agreement. The persons concerned shall be entitled, in the establishment to which they ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Adoption of the agreement.

Article R6142-32

…le L. 6142-5 enabling a public or private body, health establishment or other body to be associated with the care, teaching or research tasks assigned to university hospital centres or dental care, te…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative closure and cessation of activity

Article R8272-8

…the closure of up to three months of the establishment(s) used to commit the offence in accordance with article L. 8272-2, the Prefect shall take into account the nature, number and duration of the o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ic: Rights management

Article R321-5

The list mentioned in Article L. 324-14 specifies at least, unless impossible, the following elements for each work or protected object: 1° The title; 2° The name of the rightholder(s) when they are k…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duties of pharmacist-biologists.

Article R4235-76

…lysis laboratory in a building where another medical biology analysis laboratory is already located without the agreement of the director(s) and deputy director(s) and, failing this, without the autho…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles.

Article R341-8

…ment report, the auditors' report on the annual accounts and, where applicable, the consolidated or combined accounts, the group management report and the auditors' report on the consolidated or combi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Brokers in general

Article L131-3

Brokers of transport by land and water constituted in accordance with the law have alone, in the places where they are established, the right to broker transport by land and water. They may not combin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Reduction of sentences

Article 721-1-3

When several custodial sentences are combined and they are subject to more than one of the sentence reduction schemes provided for in articles 721,721-1-1 and 721-1-2, the regime that applies is that…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Establishments providing sailing instruction

Article A322-65

…those practising light pleasure craft and special activities can sail under appropriate supervision within a defined area and, wherever possible, marked out or, failing that, clearly delimited. For cr…

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