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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-73

…be within a period of 12 months prior to the day before registration as a jobseeker or, where applicable, the first day of the month in which the application for the allowance was submitted.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Authorisation for credit institutions and investment firms to bid directly on behalf of their clients at auctions of greenhouse gas emission allowances

Article L613-70

The authorisation provided for in Article 18(3) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 of 12 November 2010 on the timing, management and other aspects of the auctioning of greenhouse gas emission…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Accreditation of the quality of professional practice

Article D4135-7

Doctors or medical teams inform the hospital medical boards, medical conferences or medical commissions of their involvement in the accreditation procedure and of the outcome of this application. Befo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 712

In all cases where it appears necessary to hear a convicted offender who is detained, the court seised may issue a letter rogatory to the president of the judicial court closest to the place of detent…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Collection, preparation and storage of blood, blood components and labile blood products.

Article L1221-7

The recipient cannot know the identity of the donor, nor can the donor know the identity of the recipient. No information that could identify both the donor and the recipient may be divulged. This pri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to investment firms

Article L531-7

…tions under which investment firms and credit and investment institutions as defined in article L. 516-1 may carry on, on a professional basis, an activity other than those provided for in articles L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Declaration of activity as a live performance entrepreneur

Article L7122-7

The competent administrative authority may object to the continuation of the activity and terminate the validity of the declaration in the event of failure to comply with the employer's obligations un…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Measures aimed at eliminating pay differentials between women and men in the company and ensuring a balanced distribution of each sex among senior executives and members of management bodies

Article D1142-7

…rs to assist companies with between fifty and two hundred and fifty employees, at their request, in calculating the indicators mentioned in Article D. 1142-2 and, where necessary, in defining appropri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tests to verify knowledge

Article D4221-7

…L. 4221-12, which are written and anonymous, comprise, for pharmacy and, where appropriate, for medical biology : 1° A test of fundamental knowledge ; 2° A test of practical knowledge. An order of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Classification of in vitro diagnostic medical devices.

Article R5221-7

In the event of disagreement on the application of the classification rules between the manufacturer of an in vitro diagnostic medical device and an authorised body involved in the conformity assessme…

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