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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-38

The use of the work in the press title, beyond the period provided for in Article L. 132-37, is remunerated, by way of additional remuneration in the form of royalties or salary, under conditions dete…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Prosthetists and orthotists for the fitting of appliances to the disabled.

Article L4364-3

The organisations issuing the training qualifications shall transmit these qualifications to the service or organisation mentioned in article L. 4364-2 in the form of certified information. A decree o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Access to the activity allowance for recipients of the specific solidarity allowance

Article L5425-3

When exercising, taking up or resuming a professional activity, the beneficiary of the specific solidarity allowance is deemed to have made a request for the activity allowance mentioned in article L.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: PROPERTY AND STAFF

Article L3651-3

I. - All of the staff of the Lyon Urban Community automatically come under the authority of the Lyon Metropolis, under their own conditions of status and employment. Employees retain, if they have an…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: TEMPORARY PROTECTION

Article L581-3

The foreign national belonging to a specific group of people covered by the Council decision mentioned in article L. 581-2 will benefit from temporary protection from the date mentioned in this decisi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Procedural safeguards.

Article L1332-3

When the acts of which the employee is accused have made it essential to take a precautionary measure of immediate dismissal, no definitive sanction relating to these acts may be taken unless the proc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-3

Investment services providers other than portfolio management companies shall notify the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of significant intra-group transactions in accordance with the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L4243-3

Any pharmacist who employs, even occasionally, a person who does not satisfy the conditions laid down in this Title to carry out the operations provided for in article L. 4241-1 is liable to one year'…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment and conditions of practice.

Article L4623-3

The occupational health physician is a physician who is, as far as possible, employed on a full-time basis and who does not practise general practice medicine. This article does not apply to the corre…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Pharmacy inspection.

Article L5127-3

The inspectors referred to in Article L. 5127-1 shall report to the competent authorities any breaches of professional pharmacy rules that they observe in the course of their duties. They shall carry…

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