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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation of hospital foundations

Article R6141-56

I. - The Board of Directors is made up of representatives of the public establishments which have irrevocably assigned assets, rights or resources to the purpose of the foundation or which have made a…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Decision on recognition and enforcement and enforcement and appeals.

Article 728-52

When it is in possession of the necessary information, the Criminal Appeals Chamber shall decide, within a maximum of fifteen days, whether to recognise the decision sentencing the person to a custodi…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Provisions relating to the management of the guarantee fund for damage resulting from preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic acts provided by health professionals

Article R427-5

The management referred to in Article R. 427-4 is accounted for separately from the other operations carried out by the fund. The available assets of the fund are invested by the Caisse centrale de ré…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Disciplinary law

Article R6352-5

…r otherwise, on the presence of a trainee or apprentice in a training course, the procedure is as follows:1° The Director or his representative shall summon the trainee or apprentice and inform him of…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Allocation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-58

…ive documentaries must, as far as the investment for production is concerned, be financed by an hourly cash contribution from one or more television service publishers or by an hourly cash contributio…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Portion of the contract performed by third parties

Article R3114-5

Pursuant to article L. 3114-9, the proportion of services or works that the tenderer must entrust to small and medium-sized enterprises or third parties may not be less than 10% of the total estimated…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rules applicable to other payment instruments

Article D133-5

For the purposes of II of Article L. 133-26, a payment incident is any rejection of a payment order received by the payer's payment service provider due to a lack of funds or insufficient funds, regar…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article R430-5

Where a concentration is effected by the purchase or exchange of securities on a regulated market, its effective completion, within the meaning of Article L. The absence of a decision by the Autorité…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Approval of professional associations

Article R519-55

For authorisation under the conditions set out in I of Article L. 519-13, the association submits a file to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the composition of which is set by ord…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial and budgetary organisation.

Article D6431-51

The transfers of appropriations from one account to another provided for in the penultimate paragraph of Article L. 6431-10 shall be subject to approval by the Budget Controller, who shall check that…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
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