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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Employee participation in the nation's economic development.

Article L3231-9

Successive annual increases in the minimum growth wage must aim to eliminate any lasting distortion between its increase and changes in general economic conditions and incomes.

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L430-9

…e, enjoin, by reasoned decision, the undertaking or group of undertakings in question to amend, supplement or terminate, within a specified period, all agreements and all acts by which the concentrati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-7

In order to implement the agreements they have concluded with a hospital and university centre in application of article L. 6142-5, private health establishments of collective interest may, by way of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IIIa: Dental assistants

Article L4393-9

The profession of dental assistant may be practised by holders of the French training qualification entitling them to practise this profession. The terms and conditions of the training, in particular…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : The President of the Territorial Council and the Executive Council

Article LO6432-9

The president of the territorial council and the members of the executive council, after having been heard or invited to provide written explanations on the facts of which they are accused, may be sus…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Preliminary provisions.

Article L210-9

Neither the company nor third parties may, in order to avoid their commitments, rely on an irregularity in the appointment of the persons responsible for managing, administering or directing the compa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Opticians.

Article L4362-9

The dispensing of corrective lenses for ametropia and corrective ocular contact lenses is reserved for persons authorised to practise the profession of optician-mutician, under the conditions laid dow…

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

Article L4351-9

When the authorisation to practise or the declaration of provision of services is issued, the medical electroradiology manipulator must have the language skills required to practise the profession and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Fixing procedures.

Article L3423-7

The minimum monthly remuneration is equal to the product of the amount of the minimum growth wage as set in application of articles L. 3231-2 to L. 3231-12 and L. 3423-1 to L. 3423-4, multiplied by th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-9

The presence of limited financial reinsurance operations is explicitly mentioned in the title of the contracts governing this type of operation.

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