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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4371-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of dietician nationals of a Member S…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions adapting Book VII.

Article L947-4

…es, when they employ in the collectivity from two hundred to four hundred and ninety-nine employees;4° By four additional representatives, where they employ in the collectivity from five hundred to on…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt

Article 495-10

…made by the public prosecutor, from the period provided for in the penultimate paragraph of Article 495-8, the public prosecutor may bring the person before the liberty and custody judge so that the l…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Insurance against technological disasters

Article L128-4

…r the conditions provided for in article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema production account

Article 211-40

…cle…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Resale rights

Article R122-4

…of French art and have been resident in France for at least five years, even non-consecutive years, may, without condition of reciprocity, be entitled to benefit from droit de suite. Their heirs withi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Nomination, election and status of members.

Article L2352-4

…al seats. However, regardless of the number of companies involved, the number of additional members may not exceed 20% of the total number of members determined in application of Article L. 2352-3. If…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4141-4

Dental surgery students who have passed the fifth-year examination in France may be authorised to practise dentistry, either as a substitute or as an assistant to a dental surgeon.These authorisations…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-44

…er les modes et bases de la rémunération due en contrepartie des droits d'exploitation. The request may also relate to the identification of the titles making up a coherent press family within the gro…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Appeal procedures

Article R621-46

…in of inadmissibility pronounced ex officio, it shall contain the particulars prescribed byarticle 648 of the Code of Civil Procedure and specify the subject of the appeal. Where the statement of appe…

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