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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-10-5

People aged at least fifty-seven who are experiencing social and professional difficulties may enter into an open-ended inclusion contract with an integration enterprise, as provided for in article L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Personal activity account for self-employed workers, members of the liberal professions and the self-employed, their collaborating spouses and artists and authors

Article D5151-10-1

In accordance with article L. 5151-2 of the French Labour Code, a personal activity account is opened for any person subject to the contribution provided for in articles L. 6331-48, L. 6331-53 and L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Education, re-education and vocational training centres

Article R5213-9

The education or vocational re-education of disabled workers is provided by :1° Education or vocational re-education centres set up by the State, by a public authority or by a public establishment, an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Work permit categories and authorised professional activities

Article R5221-7

By way of derogation from article R. 5221-6, foreign students holding the residence permit referred to in 11° of article R. 5221-2 may enter into : 1° A professionalisation contract as referred to in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multiannual contract of objectives and resources

Article R5213-66

In order to encourage employees or prisoners who have signed a prison employment contract to carry out their career plans, develop their skills and achieve professional mobility within the adapted ent…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Holders of the state diploma

Article D4352-2

The duration of the preparatory course for the State diploma of medical laboratory technician is set at three years. Decrees issued by the Minister for Health set out in particular: 1° The conditions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Holders of the state diploma.

Article D4332-4

The conditions under which practitioners practising certain paramedical or social professions may be exempted from the first year of study and sit directly for the examination for promotion to the sec…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Setting the number of students

Article R4381-7

…d its distribution between the regions, each director general of the regional health agency shall inform the regional council of this plan before 15 May of the previous year. Each regional council sen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: High Council for the Paramedical Professions.

Article D4381-1

Reporting to the Minister for Health, the High Council for the Paramedical Professions is responsible for : 1° To promote inter-professional debate on : a) The conditions under which the paramedical p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Investigation, allocation and payment of aid.

Article R5522-60

Applications for aid for young people's initiative projects are examined: 1° For business start-ups, under the same conditions as for the aid provided for in articles L. 5141-1, L. 5141-2 and L. 5141-…

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