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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Suspension and termination of the employment contract or training agreement

Article L4733-8

…to the health, safety or physical or moral integrity of the young person in the company, he or she may propose to the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Implementing provisions.

Article L5134-63

…conditions under which employers taking on young people on open-ended professionalisation contracts may benefit from it ; 2° The terms and conditions according to which, taking into account the necess…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Health and safety.

Article L6222-31

…ses listed exhaustively by decree and under the conditions laid down by that decree, the apprentice may carry out all the work that his training may require, under the employer's responsibility. To th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for initial applications for clinical trials on medicinal products

Article R1124-9

…ose, possibly accompanied by the investigator or, where appropriate, the coordinating investigator, may be heard by the Committee. The Committee, by decision of the Chairman, either hears the investig…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Procedure.

Article R145-25

Briefs shall contain:1° A copy of the application for price fixing made, as the case may be, pursuant to Article L. 145-11 or pursuant to article R. 145-20; 2° Indication of other claims; 3° Explanati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Organisation and meetings

Article L5912-2

Sessions of the Congress of Elected Departmental and Regional Representatives and Mayors are public.However, at the request of five members or the Chairman, the Congress of Elected Departmental and Re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article LO6221-25

…of the Executive Council under the conditions set out in article LO 6222-6, the territorial council may form its committees and appoint its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies and delegate t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article LO6321-25

…of the Executive Council under the conditions set out in article LO 6322-6, the Territorial Council may form its committees and appoint its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies and delegate t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I : Composition and operation of the Local Finance Committee

Article R1211-6

…the list for which the average age of the titular candidates is the highest shall be elected.No one may appear on lists of different categories at the same time. Without prejudice to these provisions,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of economic and financial offences

Article R50 sexies

…on the actions of the public prosecutor's office and the investigating and trial courts, of which I may have become aware in the course of my work within the courts". This oath may not be withdrawn un…

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