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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Authorisations.

Article L6122-14-1

Authorisation for equipment to be used on a travelling basis in several health regions is granted or renewed by the regional health agency of the region in which the applicant has its registered offic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Administrative fines.

Article L1264-1

Failure by an employer who posts one or more employees to comply with one of the obligations set out in article L. 1262-2-1, the third paragraph of II of article L. 1262-4, article L. 1262-4-4 or arti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4a: Trade union audience measurement for companies with fewer than eleven employees

Article L2122-10-1

In order to measure the audience of trade union organisations among employees in companies with less than eleven employees, with the exception of those in the branches mentioned in article L. 2122-6,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R712-28-1

The Director General of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall rule on the declaration of division mentioned in Article R. 712-27 within six months of filing. This period is interrup…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-17

The procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, and in particular : 1° The minimum guarantees for the insurance provided for in the third par…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Allocation to an employee savings plan.

Article L3324-12

When the employee, and where applicable the beneficiary referred to in the second paragraph of Article L. 3323-6 and in the third paragraph of Article L. 3324-2, does not request the payment of all or…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 4: Policing of teaching activities

Article L212-13

…ns of a reasoned order, prohibit any person whose continued activity constitutes a danger to the health and physical or moral safety of the participants, temporarily or permanently, from performing al…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Physiotherapists.

Article L4321-10-1

…the training certificates send these certificates to the service or organisation mentioned in article L. 4321-10 in the form of certified information. They shall also send it, in the same form, the l…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Display

Article L2315-15

The members of the staff delegation of the social and economic committee may post the information that they are responsible for bringing to the attention of the staff in places that must be set aside…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: EXAMINATION OF THE REQUEST FOR TREATMENT OF OVERBELT SITUATION

Article L724-1

…on of the request for treatment of the overindebtedness situation that the debtor's resources or realisable assets allow it, the commission prescribes treatment measures under the conditions provided…

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