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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Termination of service

Article R6152-932

The associate practitioner may submit his resignation to the Director General of the Centre national de gestion des praticiens hospitaliers et des personnels de direction de la fonction publique hospi…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 8: Temporary detention of persons

Article 67 ter

…viduals, objects or vehicles for which an alert has been issued, governed by article 31 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, may, for the purposes…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 8: Temporary detention of persons

Article 67-0 quater

…the case of offences for which he is competent, to a customs officer authorised pursuant toArticle 28-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, on the instructions of the public prosecutor in whose jurisdi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Restructuring of professional branches

Article L2261-33

In the event of a merger of the scope of application of several collective agreements in application of I of article L. 2261-32 or in the event of the conclusion of a collective agreement combining th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Restructuring of professional branches

Article L2261-34

Until such time as the representativeness of the professional employers' organisations is measured following the merger of areas covered by collective bargaining agreements pronounced in application o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Restructuring of professional branches

Article L2261-32

I.-The Minister responsible for Labour may, in view of the general interest in restructuring professional branches, initiate a procedure to merge the scope of application of the collective agreements…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 8: Information for employee representatives

Article L3123-15

As part of the consultation on the company's social policy referred to in article L. 2323-15, the employer provides the social and economic committee, if there is one, at least once a year with an ass…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 8: Information for employee representatives

Article L3123-16

Each year, the employer informs the social and economic committee, if there is one, of the number of requests for individual derogation from the minimum working time mentioned in the first paragraph o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisions relating to recovery

Article L613-47

…if a resolution measure is implemented, the resolution college may, pursuant to Article L. 613-50-8, recover from the person subject to a resolution procedure the sums corresponding to any reasonabl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Provisions relating to staff

Article L5217-19

…e L. 5217-2 are transferred to the metropolis, according to the procedures provided for in articles 80 to 88 of law no. 2014-58 of 27 January 2014 de modernisation de l'action publique territoriale et…

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