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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-4

Any fixation, reproduction, communication or making available to the public, whether in return for payment or free of charge, or any television broadcast of a performance, a phonogram, a videogram, a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article L2316-4

The central social and economic committee is made up of: 1° The employer or his representative; 2° An equal number of full delegates and alternates, elected for each establishment by the establishment…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Compensation for contaminated victims.

Article L3122-4

…d, up to the amount of the sums paid, to the rights that the victim has against the person responsible for the loss or damage as well as against the persons obliged in any way to ensure total or parti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Prohibitions.

Article L5331-4

It is prohibited to publish in a newspaper, magazine or periodical or to disseminate by any other means of communication accessible to the public an insertion of job offers or offers of home-based wor…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Physiotherapists.

Article L4321-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of masseur-physiotherapist nationals…

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

Article L4311-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Orthoptists.

Article L4342-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of orthoptist nationals of a Member S…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Occupational therapists.

Article L4331-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of occupational therapist nationals o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Psychomotrician.

Article L4332-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of psychomotrician nationals of a Mem…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Chiropodists.

Article L4322-4

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of chiropodist nationals of a Member…

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