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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-3

…ement and their integrity with regard to the analysis activities for which the laboratory is approved. The approved laboratory must not be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by a manufacture…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Title IV: Building insurance

Article Annexe I art A243-1

…the new work and which become technically indivisible from it, within the meaning of II of article L. 243-1-1 of this code, when the insured is held liable on the basis of the presumption established…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment

Article R6152-345

The trial period provided for in 4° of article R. 6152-343 enables the employing establishment to assess the practitioner's skills and abilities. In the event of renewal of the contract to carry out t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment

Article R6152-343

…achieve these objectives as well as the rate at which these objectives and commitments may be revised.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Assistant pharmacists.

Article R5125-34

The assistant pharmacists referred to in article L. 5125-20 are persons who, fulfilling the conditions for practising pharmacy in France, carry out their activity: 1° In a pharmacy, with the pharmacis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Supplementary provisions

Article R3121-34

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in 2° of Article L. 3121-51, hours lost in the cases provided for in Article L. 3121-50 may only be recovered in the twelve months preceding or following…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Cross-border mergers

Article R236-34

A creditor's objection to the cross-border merger, under the conditions provided for by Article L. 236-15, shall be lodged within three months of the last publication or the making available to the pu…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Illegal businesses

Article R352-34

When the undertakings referred to in Article L. 310-3-1, which are authorised to conduct the operations referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-1, no longer hold sufficient eligible own funds to cover the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 11: Settlement of claims arising from employment contracts.

Article R641-34

…e and supporting documents shall be sent by the liquidator to the institutions mentioned in Article L. 143-11-4 of the Labour Code, brought before the industrial tribunal in accordance with article L.…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Recovery.

Article 345 ter

…the recovery of debts for which they are responsible, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 257 of the Book of Tax Procedures. By way of derogation from the same article L. 257, for debts r…

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