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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial assistance

Article R5134-69

Amounts received by way of aid for professional integration are not repaid and the employer retains the benefit of the aid corresponding to the number of days worked by the employee whose initiative-e…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Grant and publication of the patent

Article R*612-73-2

Failing an express decision within the time limit mentioned in Article R. 612-73-1, the application is deemed to be rejected.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supervisory Board, Executive Board and Management Board

Article L6143-6

…t in the management of a private health institution, either personally or through his/her spouse, ascendants or descendants in the direct line; however, this incompatibility does not apply to staff re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 698-5

…267-1, L. 267-2, L. 268-2 and the second paragraph of Article L. 311-2 of the Code of Military Justice shall apply. In accordance with article L. 211-21 of the same code, the person under investigatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition

Article L612-6

…rmation of the supervisory board is composed of eight members: 1° The Governor of the Banque de France or the Deputy Governor appointed to represent him, Chairman ; 2° The Vice-Chairman ; 3° Two membe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Advances.

Article R2337-6

…outstanding debts to be recovered and outstanding debts to be paid, drawn up by the accounting officer and certified by the authorising officer; 5° The cash position; 6° Copies of the deliberations o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-6

Payment systems and payment service providers shall be permitted to process personal data where this is necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation and detection of payment fraud. The communicat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4342-6

…nal acts: 1° Non-contact corneal pachymetry ; 2° Recording eye movements ; 3° Ocular optical coherence tomography ; 4° Corneal topography; 5° Non-contact preoperative ocular biometry; 6° Non-contact s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Candidatures and pre-election procedures.

Article R723-6

Applications for the office of judge of a commercial court are declared to the prefect. No person may be a candidate for several commercial courts at the same time. Declarations of candidacy are admis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-134

Where the European Public Prosecutor's Office decides not to exercise its jurisdiction, the public prosecutor hearing the investigation or the investigating judge hearing the information shall remain…

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