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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Offences relating to doorstep selling and the distance provision of financial services

Article R754-25

Article R. 353-1 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Decree no. 2018-229 of 30 March 2018.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-15

…he liquidation, it terminates the observation period and, subject to the provisions of Article L. 641-10, the administrator's mission.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 9: Special provisions for forestry savings companies governed by Article L. 214-121.

Article R214-173

…several forestry savings companies, the sustainable management commitments in accordance with 3° of 1 of article 793 of the General Tax Code of the same code by one or more forestry groupings prior to…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Participation of private healthcare professionals in the work of public health institutions

Article R6146-17

The contract provided for in article L. 6146-2, concluded between the self-employed healthcare professionals mentioned in that article and public health institutions, takes account of the strategic gu…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Dematerialised service

Article R5132-1-21

I.-The persons designated and authorised for this purpose within :1° Structures for integration through economic activity ;2° Organisations that prescribe work ;3° State departments responsible for st…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Accelerated procedure

Article R1124-17

…s and no therapeutic alternative. By way of derogation from the first paragraph of II of article R. 1123-20-1, the Committee for the Protection of Individuals responsible for giving an opinion on the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1a: Remuneration received by doctors for on-call duty

Article 151 ter

…remuneration received in respect of the permanence of care exercised in application of article L. 6314-1 of the Public Health Code by doctors or their replacements established in an area characterised…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Supplementary provisions

Article L3121-15

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 3121-14, the equivalence system may be instituted by decree of the Conseil d'Etat.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Revenue and imprest accounts (R).

Article R1617-15

The provisions applicable to revenue accounts and those applicable to imprest accounts shall apply to revenue and imprest accounts.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Start-up and shut-down controls

Article R4324-15

…to occur or which are in the process of occurring. The following are excluded from this obligation: 1° Machinery for which an emergency stop device would not be able to reduce the risk, either because…

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