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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Actions and resources of members of multidisciplinary occupational health teams.

Article L4624-2-1

Workers benefiting from the enhanced individual monitoring system provided for in article L. 4624-2, or who have benefited from such monitoring during their working career, are examined by the occupat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Missions and components of the public employment service.

Article L5311-3-1

The State may delegate to the region, under the conditions set out inarticle L. 1111-8-1 of the General Local Authorities Code and after consulting the Regional Employment, Training and Vocational Gui…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The High Council for Financial Stability

Article L631-2-1

…t prejudice to the respective powers of the institutions that its members represent, the Haut Conseil de stabilité financière supervises the financial system as a whole, with the aim of preserving its…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Incompatibilities.

Article L812-8-1

The persons mentioned in III of article L. 812-2 are subject to the rules of incompatibility set out in their statutes.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Intervention by the fund in the event of the withdrawal of an insurance undertaking's administrative authorisation

Article L421-10-2

Declarations made by insurance undertakings to the guarantee fund indicating the items to be taken into account for the assessment of the contributions referred to in articles L. 421-10 and L. 421-10-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1a: Use of the account for a professional retraining project

Article L4163-8-1

When the holder of the professional prevention account decides to mobilise all or part of the points registered in the account for the use mentioned in 4° of the I of article L. 4163-7, these points a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-21-1

For all life insurance policies with a surrender or transfer value and for all capitalisation policies, the surrender or transfer value, where applicable, is equal to the difference between the curren…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Fixing the term and duration of the contract.

Article L1242-8-1

In the absence of a stipulation in the agreement or branch agreement concluded in application ofarticle L. 1242-8, the total duration of the fixed-term employment contract may not exceed eighteen mont…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Antenatal diagnostics: prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnosis.

Article L2131-4-1

By way of derogation from the sixth paragraph ofArticle L. 2131-4, and subject to having exhausted all the possibilities offered by Articles L. 1241-1 to L. 1241-7, pre-implantation diagnosis may also…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for certain transfers

Article L1614-8-1

As from 1 January 2002, the costs transferred to the regions as a result of the transfer of powers provided for in Article 21-1 of the loi n° 82-1153 du 30 décembre 1982 d'orientation des transports i…

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