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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Secondment.

Article R6152-59

…not exceeded six months or one year if the practitioner was seconded pursuant to 3° of article R. 6152-51 ; 2° Or to his post if it is still vacant, by decision of the Director General of the Centre N…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Prosthetists and orthotists for the fitting of appliances to the disabled.

Article L4364-5

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee made up, in particular, of professionals, grant individual authorisation to practise one of the professions mentioned in Article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Cooperation and exchange of information

Article L311-57

…ation to foreign natural or legal persons, the collège de résolution and the collège de supervision may, for the performance of their prevention and resolution duties, exchange information covered by…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Common provisions

Article R532-5

…amount of the debt are mentioned; 2° An indication, in very conspicuous lettering, that the debtor may request the release of the security as set out in Article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Exercise of the right of appeal

Article 503-1

When he is free, an accused person who lodges an appeal must declare his personal address. He may, however, substitute the address of a third party responsible for receiving the summonses, rectificati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Duties of the social and economic committee in undertakings with at least eleven employees and fewer than fifty employees

Article L2312-5

…cle L. 4121-3-1. It exercises the right to alert under the conditions laid down in articles L. 2312-59 and L. 2312-60. In a limited company, when the members of the staff delegation of the social and…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Recording of sums calculated on the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-56

…cle…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts

Article L232-5

Companies that prepare consolidated accounts in accordance with articles L. 233-18 to L. 233-26 may, under the conditions set out in article L. 123-17 and notwithstanding article L. 123-18, register t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : The application of laws and regulations in Saint-Barthélemy

Article LO6213-5

…the power to refer the matter to it of its referral, which must be substantiated; these authorities may submit observations within a period of fifteen days.The Constitutional Council shall give its ru…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Standard formula

Article R352-5

…isk on intangible assets, are specified in Article 87 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2015/35 of 10 October 2014. For the calculation of the modules mentioned in a, b and c, insurance and r…

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