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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Share categories

Article L6313-6

The purpose of the apprenticeship training schemes referred to in 4° of Article L. 6313-1 is :1° To enable workers holding an apprenticeship contract to obtain a vocational qualification attested by a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisional profit and loss account for training schools and institutes.

Article R6145-56

The provisional profit and loss account for the schools and institutes mentioned in 3° of article R. 6145-12 shows the operating costs and income attributable to the activity of these schools and inst…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Employee advisor.

Article L1232-12

The employer grants the employee adviser, at the latter's request, leave of absence for training purposes. These authorisations are granted up to a maximum of two weeks per three-year period following…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics.

Article L1412-3-1

The Estates General mentioned in article L. 1412-1-1 bring together conferences of citizens chosen to represent society in all its diversity. After receiving prior training, they debate and draw up an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-54

Any employee under the age of twenty-five wishing to participate in the activities of youth and popular education organisations and sports federations and associations approved by the administrative a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IIIa: Dental assistants

Article L4393-9

The profession of dental assistant may be practised by holders of the French training qualification entitling them to practise this profession. The terms and conditions of the training, in particular…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: The national plant variety authority

Article R412-20

Any appeal lodged against the decisions of the Plant Variety Protection Committee shall be notified within fifteen days by the Registrar of the Court of Appeal to the person in charge of the tasks fal…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Health and safety.

Article L6222-31

…apply without prejudice to the powers of control exercised by the Labour Inspectorate during the performance of the employment contract.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Public sector.

Article L6321-12

In the companies referred to inarticle 1 of law no. 83-675 of 26 July 1983 on the democratisation of the public sector, every training plan contains a programme of actions, in particular with the publ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal regime for declarations of activity

Article L6351-1

Any person carrying out the actions provided for in article L. 6313-1 shall file a declaration of activity with the administrative authority as soon as the first vocational training agreement or the f…

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