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Showing 22012210 of 10617 articles for Art. Form 2044

French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section: Economic and financial control of the "Health Data Platform".

Article R1462-5

Economic and financial control may take the form of visits to the grouping's premises and periodic audits of its activities.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Police

Article R2512-12

Streets known as "faubourgs", although they form a continuation to a street of the same name, take on a new sequence of numbers.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Risk assessment

Article R4433-3

The results of the assessment of noise levels and measurements are kept in a form that allows them to be consulted for a period of ten years.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 18: Psychiatry

Article R6123-180

…der must ensure continuity of care, in particular by organising the referral of patients to another form of care.

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Emergency care teaching centres and emergency first aid training

Article D6311-23

The emergency care teaching centre, the medical or health training and research unit or the Val-de-Grâce School authorises the trainers authorised to provide training to obtain the certificate of trai…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-13

When a sports agent forms a company to exercise his profession, its managers, partners or shareholders are subject to the incompatibilities and incapacities set out in articles L. 222-9 to L. 222-11.…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Judicial divorce and legal separation

Article 1091

On pain of inadmissibility, the petition shall include in its appendix, where applicable, the information form of the minor child requesting to be heard dated and signed by him or her as well as an ag…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions

Article L6213-8

…or a private not-for-profit health establishment, has a medical biology laboratory organised in the form of an activity centre or a university hospital centre, the biologist in charge is the head of t…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: General obligations of traders

Article A123-1

The information and documents referred to in Article R. 123-3 comply with the following technical characteristics:1° The electronic declaration form is drawn up as a formed message written in JSON (Ja…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Protected works

Article L112-1

…ovisions of this Code protect the rights of authors in all works of the mind, whatever their genre, form of expression, merit or purpose.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
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