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French Labour CodeIn force
Title V: Supervision of apprenticeship training leading to a diploma

Article R6251-1

For the application of the last paragraph of article L. 6211-2, each certifying minister sets up a mission, placed under his authority, responsible for the pedagogical supervision of apprenticeship tr…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Centre hospitalier national d'ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (Quinze-Vingts national ophthalmology hospital)

Article R6147-59

Notwithstanding the provisions of 3° of article R. 6143-3, the college of qualified personalities on the Supervisory Board of the Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital comprises five members a…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Independent management bodies

Article L321-6

An independent management organisation is a profit-making legal entity whose main purpose is to manage copyright or rights related to copyright on behalf of several rightholders, for the collective be…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Article D1265-1

The employee is informed of the legal action envisaged by the representative trade union organisation in application of article L. 1265-1 by any means capable of conferring a date certain. This inform…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 144-2

Where release is ordered on the basis of the provisions of articles 143-1,144,144-1,145-2,145-3 or 706-24-3, but that it is likely to place the victim at risk, the court shall place the person under i…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Branches of insurance undertakings whose head office is situated in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L329-1

The undertakings referred to in 4° of I of Article L. 310-2 may not carry on the operations referred to in Article L. 310-1 in the territory of the French Republic unless they have obtained administra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Inspection.

Article L5313-2-1

For the sole purpose of recording the offences provided for in articles L. 5421-2, L. 5421-3, L. 5421-13, L. 5432-1, L. 5432-2, L. 5438-4, L. 5461-3 and L. 5462-3 of the Public Health Code, when commi…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contraceptives other than medicines and condoms.

Article R5134-13

Advertising to the public for a product or object defined in article R. 5134-11 may not include any element which : 1° Suggest that the effect of the product or object is guaranteed or that it has no…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Monitoring and control of posted workers

Article R1263-11-1

The Labour Inspectorate monitoring officer referred to in Articles L. 8112-1 or L. 8112-5 who observes one of the breaches referred to in Article L. 1263-3 shall issue a written injunction to the empl…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Operational implementation outside the département (R)

Article R1424-47

The fire and rescue services may only intervene outside the boundaries of their department by decision:1° Of the prefect of their department, in particular in application of an interdepartmental agree…

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