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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Opening and operating conditions

Article L6222-5

The sites of the medical biology laboratory are located either in the same area determined in application of b of 2° of Article L. 1434-9, or in a maximum of three of these adjoining areas, unless an…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Powers of the Executive Council

Article LO6253-5

The Executive Council is consulted by the Minister for Overseas Territories or by the representative of the State on the following matters: 1° Preparation of operational emergency plans required to de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Powers of the Executive Council

Article LO6353-5

The Executive Council is consulted by the Minister for Overseas Territories or by the representative of the State on the following matters: 1° Preparation of operational emergency plans required to de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Recognition of the professional qualifications of nationals of a Member State of the European Community or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L2223-50

Where the provisions of article L. 2223-49, the competent authority may require the applicant to complete, at his or her discretion, an adaptation course or take an aptitude test prior to recognition…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Preliminary provisions.

Article L210-5

As regards transactions of limited liability companies and joint stock companies which took place before the sixteenth day of the publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commercia…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Experimentation

Article LO1113-5

Prior to the expiry of the period set for the experiment, the Government will submit to Parliament, for evaluation, a report accompanied by the observations of the territorial authorities that have ta…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rights conferred by the trade mark

Article L713-5

The use in the course of trade, for goods or services, not authorised by the proprietor of a well-known trade mark within the meaning of Article 6 bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Ind…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Criteria for ordering redundancies.

Article L1233-5

When the employer makes a collective redundancy for economic reasons, and in the absence of an applicable collective labour agreement, it defines the criteria used to determine the order of redundanci…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Lifelong vocational guidance

Article L6111-5

On the basis of quality standards drawn up by the region on the basis of specifications that it adopts, organisations may be recognised as participating in the regional public lifelong guidance servic…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-5

I.-A single act of communication to the public is the process by which, for the purpose of communication to the public, a broadcasting organisation, from the national territory or the territory of ano…

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