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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seniority requirements

Article L3342-1

…However, a condition of seniority in the company or in the group of companies defined in articles L. 3344-1 and L. 3344-2 may be required. This may not exceed three months. To determine any seniorit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Helping employers manage health and safety at work

Article L4644-1

I.-The employer shall appoint one or more competent employees to deal with the company's occupational risk protection and prevention activities. The employee(s) thus designated by the employer shall r…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative approval

Article L382-1

…until they have obtained administrative authorisation issued by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. Approval is granted at the request of the fund, for the operations referred to in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Actions and resources of members of multidisciplinary occupational health teams.

Article L4624-8

…where applicable, one of the health professionals mentioned in the first paragraph of I of article L. 4624-1, records, in compliance with medical confidentiality, information relating to the worker's…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK VI: Company difficulties.

Article L620-2

…applicable to any person exercising a commercial, craft or agricultural activity defined in article L. 311-1 du code rural et de la pêche maritime and, to any other natural person exercising an indepe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Receivership.

Article L631-2

…icable to any person carrying on a commercial, craft or agricultural activity as defined in article L. 311-1 du code rural et de la pêche maritime and to any other natural person exercising an indepen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VIII : Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis

Article L5218-1

I. - Notwithstanding the second paragraph of article L. 5217-1, the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis brings together all the member municipalities of the Marseille Provence métropole urban community,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Health protection.

Article L1521-5

…ording indicated in the right-hand column of the table in I: ARTICLES IN THE WORDING RESULTING FROM L. 1121-1 Order no. 2022-1086 of 29 July 2022 L. 1121-2 Law no. 2012-300 of 5 March 2012 L. 1121-3 O…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Departmental maternal and child protection service.

Article L2112-2

…to account the specific remit of the attending doctors mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 162-5-3 of the Social Security Code and without prejudice to the remit of the doctors in the mate…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Extemporaneous preparation and retail sale.

Article L5442-10

…es are punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros:1° Any person prescribing veterinary medicinal products or medicated feedstuffs to animals for which they do not personally pro…

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