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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contributions and allowances

Article L5424-21

Workers who are unemployed and who have exhausted their unemployment insurance rights under the specific provisions relating to performing artists and to workers and technicians in sound recording, fi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L6113-1

A national register of professional qualifications is drawn up and updated by the national institution called France Compétences referred to in article L. 6123-5.The professional certifications regist…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ic: Combating drug supply shortages

Article L5121-31

For the medicinal products of major therapeutic interest mentioned in article L. 5111-4 , marketing authorisation holders and pharmaceutical companies exploiting medicinal products draw up and impleme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Examination of authorisation applications

Article L5125-20

Subject to the provisions of Article L. 5125-4, applications for authorisation to merge have priority over applications to transfer. Applications for transfer authorisations are given priority over ap…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks of healthcare institutions.

Article L6111-6

As stated in Article L. 2223-43 of the French General Code for Local Authorities, reproduced below: "Public or private health establishments that transport a body before committal and transfer a body…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Regional hospital groups

Article L6132-2-5

I.-The chairman of the grouping's unified medical commission is vice-chairman of the strategic committee and vice-chairman of the executive boards of the establishments belonging to the grouping.II.-T…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Representative bodies and staff expression.

Article L6144-1

In each public health institution, the institutional medical committee draws up the institution's medical strategy and its medical project in conjunction with the group's shared medical project. It pa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating conditions

Article L6213-1

For the purposes of this book, a medical biologist is :1° Either a doctor holding one of the evidence of formal qualifications mentioned in article L. 4131-1, or a pharmacist holding one of the eviden…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LEGAL REGIME FOR ACTS TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE COLLECTIVITY AND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE COLLECTIVITY

Article LO6241-1

The acts taken by the authorities of the collectivity are enforceable by operation of law as soon as they have been published in the Official Journal of Saint-Barthélemy, posted or notified to the int…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LEGAL REGIME FOR ACTS TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE COLLECTIVITY AND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE COLLECTIVITY

Article LO6341-1

The acts taken by the authorities of the collectivity are enforceable by operation of law as soon as they have been published in the Official Journal of Saint-Martin, posted or notified to the interes…

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