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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions.

Article L2281-6

Where an agreement on the right of expression exists, the employer shall call a meeting, at least once every three years, with the representative trade union organisations in order to examine the resu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-6

A doctor who ascertains that the person he is caring for needs protection in the acts of civil life, for one of the reasons set out in article 425 of the Civil Code, may make a declaration to the publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health establishments responsible for psychiatric care without consent.

Article L3222-6

The terms and conditions for the application of this chapter shall be determined as necessary by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L3411-6

Addiction treatment, support and prevention centres are required to provide medico-psycho-social support, treatment, harm reduction and individual and collective prevention.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Public body responsible for adult vocational training

Article L5315-6

The public body may set up subsidiaries or acquire holdings in companies, groups or organisations with a view to carrying out any operation useful to its missions.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-6

School-age children are entitled to appropriate schooling in health establishments, as far as the conditions of their hospitalisation allow.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L2351-6

Participation means the influence exercised by the body representing the employees or by the employees' representatives on the affairs of a company in the following ways: - either by exercising their…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4251-6

A medical physicist who is a national of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who is established and legally practises the act…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Powers

Article LO6414-6

The local authority shall institute taxes or levies specific to the communes, including on services rendered. The rates of these taxes and levies and the procedures for their collection shall be decid…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-6

Industrial property attorneys practise their profession either individually or as part of a group, or as employees of a natural or legal person practising the profession of industrial property attorne…

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