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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Essential health and safety requirements.

Article R5211-23-1

Medical devices and active implantable medical devices manufactured from non-viable tissues of animal origin or non-viable products derived from tissues of animal origin, falling within the scope defi…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and opening conditions.

Article L6325-1-1

The persons mentioned in 1° of article L. 6325-1 who have not completed a second cycle of secondary education and who do not hold a technological or vocational education diploma, the persons mentioned…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Decisions and appeals.

Article R464-24-1

By way of derogation from the provisions of Title VI of Book II of the Code of Civil Procedure, the appeals provided for in Article

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Guaranteed representation of funds, professional civil liability, remuneration and continuing professional training.

Article R814-28-1

The duration of the vocational training provided for in article L. 814-9 is twenty hours over the course of a calendar year or forty hours over the course of two consecutive years.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3a: Emergency care procedures within the remit of the fire service

Article R6311-18-2

Only fire fighters who have completed training under the conditions defined by an order of the Minister for Health and the Minister for the Interior are authorised to perform the procedures mentioned…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Availability of beneficiaries' rights.

Article R3324-21-1

The profit-sharing agreement sets out how each beneficiary is to be informed.This information relates in particular to :a) The amounts allocated under the profit-sharing scheme;b) The amount he/she ma…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Syndicates of communes

Article L5842-14

I. - The articles L. 5212-1 to L. 5212-5 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - 1° For the application of Article L. 5212-2, the second sentence reads a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The impact of multiple managers and transactions

Article L481-11

The person mentioned in article L. 481-1 that has benefited from a total exemption from a financial penalty under a leniency procedure is only jointly and severally liable to compensate the damage suf…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The impact of multiple managers and transactions

Article L481-10

As an exception to article L. 481-9, a small or medium-sized enterprise is not jointly and severally liable to compensate the damage suffered by victims other than its direct or indirect contractors w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The impact of multiple managers and transactions

Article L481-12

Where the compensated victims are the direct or indirect contractors of the joint and several debtors, the amount of the contribution of the natural or legal person mentioned in article L. 481-1 which…

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