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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seizures and assignments.

Article L3252-5

…payments when the body responsible for paying family benefits is acting on behalf of the creditor, may be pursued against the entire remuneration. It is first deducted from the unattachable portion a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Entry on the list of industrial property attorneys

Article R422-5

Any person registered on the list of industrial property attorneys may request to be removed from it. They must do so if they no longer meet the conditions set out in Article R. 422-2. The request is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-55

…likely to result in a substantial change in the conditions under which the declared activities are carried out, in particular a change in the person or persons scientifically responsible for the decl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: College

Article R3211-5

…g of each meeting, is sent without delay to the director of the establishment who, depending on the case, sends it without delay to the prefect of the department or, in Paris, to the police prefect, o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Provisions specific to entry 5: "intensive vascular neurology care".

Article D6124-30-5

The registrant is part of the local cerebrovascular accident care network, which aims to encourage and structure local cooperation, particularly through telehealth.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-5

The certificate must be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of the executing State or into one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Communit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Regional cooperation

Article L7153-5

…tate competence and to areas of competence of the territorial collectivity of French Guyana are, in cases where the first paragraph of articles L. 7153-3 and L. 7153-4-1 is not applied, negotiated and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: List of ad hoc administrators

Article R53-5

The striking off of an ad hoc administrator may be pronounced each year by the general assembly of the court of appeal, either at the request of the person concerned or on the initiative of the first…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conseil national d'orientation des conditions de travail (National Council for the Orientation of Working Conditions)

Article R4641-5

The Conseil national d'orientation des conditions de travail : 1° Participates in the preparation of national and international strategic guidelines relating to health and safety at work, the improvem…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Reimbursement of transport costs

Article R6341-51

In the case of training courses involving a distance from the trainee's usual place of residence, the trainees concerned are entitled, in order to enable them to return periodically, to reimbursement…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
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