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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Foreign nationals doing a work placement in an establishment or undertaking of the group employing them

Article R421-51

The decision of the competent authorities on the application for a temporary residence permit bearing the wording "ICT trainee" provided for in article L. 421-30 is notified to the applicant in writin…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Optimisation of medical exposure to ionising radiation

Article R1333-57

The implementation of the optimisation principle referred to in 2° of Article L. 1333-2 aims to keep the dose of ionising radiation as low as reasonably achievable in order to obtain the medical infor…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Realisation of assets.

Article R642-5

The request made pursuant to Article L. 642-6 is made by request of the assignee.The judgment amending the transfer plan is communicated by the registrar to the persons referred to in Article R. 621-7…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing

Article D561-54

For each meeting of the Board, the Chairman shall draw up the agenda and the list of members to be convened. If the agenda includes a subject specifically concerning a profession mentioned in Article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Fields of activity covered by national cost studies

Article R6113-53

The national cost studies referred to in Article L. 6113-11 may cover the following fields of activity:1° The activities mentioned in 1° of article R. 162-33 of the Social Security Code; 2° The activi…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Exclusion of specialised cinemas

Article D311-5

Operators of cinematographic entertainment establishments may opt to specialise one or more cinematographic entertainment venues in the showing of pornographic cinematographic or audiovisual works or…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Foreign nationals doing a work placement in an establishment or undertaking of the group employing them

Article R421-54

The administrative authority's decision on the application for a temporary residence permit bearing the wording "mobile ICT trainee" provided for in article L. 421-31 is notified to the applicant in w…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Transfer of the registered office.

Article R229-5

The decision of the Extraordinary General Meeting taken pursuant to the second paragraph of Article L. 229-2 is the subject of a notice inserted in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements i…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Development Council

Article R6231-5

The Development Committee is chaired by the director of the training body providing apprenticeship training or his representative. However, for the apprentice training centres of the establishments me…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for setting up and running health centres

Article D6323-5

For each patient cared for in a health centre, a file containing all the health information required for diagnostic and therapeutic decisions is compiled in compliance with the confidentiality and eth…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
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