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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Allocation de professionnalisation et de solidarité et allocation de fin de droits.

Article D5424-53

A worker involuntarily deprived of employment who :1° Has exhausted his or her rights to the insurance allowance referred to in article L. 5422-1 or to the professionalisation and solidarity allowance…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Mutual credit

Article L512-56

Each caisse de crédit mutuel must belong to a regional federation and each regional federation must belong to the confédération nationale du crédit mutuel, whose articles of association are approved b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Housing information and assistance committee

Article L2315-52

The Employee Housing Information and Assistance Commission assists employees wishing to purchase or rent housing under the "participation des employeurs à l'effort de construction" (employer's contrib…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Missions

Article L6333-5

Caisse des dépôts et consignations concludes a three-year agreement with the State on objectives and performance, which defines in particular the portion of the resources mentioned in articles L. 6333…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Dispensing to the public

Article R5126-58

The list mentioned in 1° of article L. 5126-6, medicinal products : 1° Registered on the initiative of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General information

Article R721-5

I. - The National Institute of Industrial Property shall draw up a summary of the public enquiry and consultation, which it shall send to the applicant, together with its conclusions and any recommend…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-3

I. - By way of derogation from Article 509-2, applications for the recognition or establishment of enforceability, on the territory of the Republic, of foreign notarial authentic instruments pursuant…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books

Article L134-5

Failing opposition notified by the author or publisher on expiry of the period provided for in I of Article L. 134-4, the collective management organisation shall offer authorisation for the reproduct…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Territorial mental health project

Article R3224-5

I. - The priority of the territorial mental health project is to organise the conditions for the early identification of mental disorders, the development of a diagnosis and access to care and social…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: EXPENDITURE

Article L2321-5

The communes whose inhabitants represent, in respect of one year, more than 1% of the parturients or more than 1% of the deceased in a public health establishment comprising a maternity unit and situa…

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