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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work platforms.

Article R4534-76

…atforms used to carry out work inside buildings are supported on crossbeams resting on joists. They may not be supported on infill slabs.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Unused medicinal products for human use.

Article R4211-25

Producers or their eco-organisation may call upon wholesaler-distributors to supply pharmacies with the receptacles mentioned in article R. 4211-24, and to collect and transport these receptacles to t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Transmission of information.

Article R5323-9

The private employment agency may collect personal data relating to jobseekers insofar as this is necessary for the placement activity, with the exception of the registration number in the national re…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Transmission of information.

Article R5323-11

…o jobseekers recorded in a data processing system implemented solely by private employment agencies may not be kept for more than six years from the date of recording.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Holders of a State nursing diploma.

Article D4311-17

…diploma is set at three years. The conditions under which partial or total exemption from teaching may be granted are set by order of the Minister for Health.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4311-12-1

Students preparing for the State-qualified nurse anaesthetist diploma may take part in the activities mentioned in article R. 4311-12 in the presence of a State-qualified nurse anaesthetist.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Duties towards patients

Article R4321-87

The masseur-physiotherapist may not advise or propose to the patient or their family, as being beneficial or without danger, a product or procedure which is illusory or insufficiently tested. Any prac…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Eligibility criteria.

Article R5522-48

…by order of the ministers responsible for employment and overseas France. The State representative may request additional information needed to assess the project.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Coverage of professionalisation contracts

Article D6332-87

Pôle emploi may, on behalf of the managing body of the unemployment insurance scheme through the intermediary of skills operators, pay the costs of professionalisation contracts for jobseekers aged 26…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Savings account holders

Article R6341-21

The holder of a savings account may be exempted from repayment in exceptional circumstances, by decision of the authority signing the agreement or, in the case of a training course not covered by an a…

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