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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III ter: Birth centres

Article L6323-4

Birthing centres are health facilities in which midwives, under the conditions set out in articles L. 4151-1 and L. 4151-4 relating to the practice of their profession, give birth to women whose pregn…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Scope of negotiations

Article L2315-41

The company agreement defined in article L. 2313-2 sets out the procedures for setting up the health, safety and working conditions committee(s) in application of articles L. 2315-36 and L. 2315-37, b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single chapter: Financing of vocational training

Article L6131-4

I.-Subject to the provisions of II, the contributions collected by the bodies mentioned in Articles L. 213-1 and L. 752-4 of the Social Security Code andArticle L. 723-2 of the Rural and Maritime Fish…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Loan guarantees

Article L3231-4

A département may only grant a loan guarantee or its surety to a private-law person mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of this article or in 1° of I of article L. 3231-4-1 or carrying out an opera…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Validation and controls carried out by the departmental or multidepartmental mutual benefit funds for agriculture (caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité sociale agricole)

Article L123-49

A person who has fully complied with the validations and checks carried out pursuant to article L. 123-48 is registered in the national register of companies as a "company run by a farm worker", witho…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Validation and controls carried out by the departmental or multidepartmental mutual benefit funds for agriculture (caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité sociale agricole)

Article L123-48

Information entries and filings of documents in the national register of companies requested in connection with applications for registration, amending entries and deregistrations, are validated, for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Provisions relating to the conclusion, assessment and implementation of group financial support agreements

Article L613-46

I. - Notwithstanding any provision or stipulation to the contrary, entities in the same group may enter into an agreement, to which the rules of this sub-section apply, the purpose or effect of which…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-4

For the operations referred to in 2° and 3° of Article L. 310-1, the State in which the risk is situated is considered to be :1° The State in which the property is located, when the insurance relates…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to the use of a liability management structure

Article L311-41

I.-For the persons mentioned in 1°, 2° and 4° to 6° of Article L. 311-1 subject to a resolution procedure, the resolution college may decide to use one or more liability management structures to which…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organs, tissues, cells and products.

Article L1272-4

As stated in Article 511-5 of the French Penal Code, reproduced below:"The taking of tissue or cells or the collection of a product from a living person of legal age without that person's consent havi…

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