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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Flexible working days

Article L3121-58

…f I of article L. 3121-64: 1° Managers who have autonomy in the organisation of their working hours and whose duties do not require them to follow the collective timetable applicable in the workshop,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Flexible working days

Article L3121-59

…rt of their rest days in return for an increase in their salary. The agreement between the employee and the employer must be in writing. A rider to the lump-sum agreement concluded between the employe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-50

…f the Agence de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) makes public, in particular via the Agency's website: 1° The decisions to grant…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 2: Minimum capital requirement

Article L352-5-1

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this section.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: General authorisation conditions

Article L5125-5-1

…ighbouring municipalities at the initiative of one or more pharmacists or pharmacists' associations and giving rise to compensation for the permanent cessation of activity of one or more pharmacies mu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-5-1

The professional practice standard relating to communications with the bodies mentioned in article L. 823-16 of the French Commercial Code, approved by the Minister of Justice, is shown below: NEP - 2…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Group Medical Commission

Article D6132-13-5

I.-The grouping's unified medical commission elects its chairman and vice-chairman from among the permanent practitioners who are members. However, when full practitioners do not make up the majority…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Administration and control

Article L1524-5-1

…cal company in the capital of its subsidiary, multiplied by the share held by the local authorities and their groupings as shareholders in the capital of the semi-public local company, the total being…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions applicable to certain contraventions

Article 529

For the contraventions listed by decree in the Council of State, public action is extinguished by the payment of a fixed fine, which is exclusive of the application of the rules on repeat offences.How…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-55-2

…issuing cheques or using a payment card as provided for in 8° of article 41-2, the offender shall hand over to the court clerk or to the person designated by the public prosecutor, against receipt, t…

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