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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Common provisions.

Article L1235-4

For the purposes of this Title, samples taken in the context of research involving the human person within the meaning of Article L. 1121-1 are considered to be samples taken for therapeutic purposes,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Removal from a deceased person.

Article L1232-2

If the deceased was a minor, the sample may only be taken for one or more of the purposes mentioned in article L. 1232-1 if each of the persons exercising parental authority consents in writing.Howeve…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning companies not subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-53

In undertakings with fewer than fifty employees, the administrative authority shall verify, within twenty-one days from the date of notification of the proposed redundancy, that: 1° Staff representati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Status and missions

Article L1231-2

I.-Without prejudice to the powers devolved to local and regional authorities and their groupings, and in coordination with these authorities and groupings, the National Agency for Territorial Cohesio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Economic redundancies in the context of safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation.

Article L1233-58

I.-In the event of receivership or compulsory liquidation, the employer, administrator or liquidator, as the case may be, who envisages redundancies, implements a redundancy plan under the conditions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Organ transplants.

Article L1234-2

Organ transplants are carried out in health establishments authorised for this purpose under the conditions laid down by the provisions of Chapters I and II of Title II of Book I of Part VI of this Co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Resources and means

Article L1233-4

I.-The National Coordination Committee of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion comprises: 1° Representatives of the Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine (National Agency for Urban Renew…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Resources and means

Article L1233-6

The Citizens' Reserve for Territorial Cohesion is intended to meet the needs of territorial projects and actions supported by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion by supplementing, the resourc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Organisation and operation

Article L1232-2

The State representative in the department, special-status collectivity or overseas collectivity governed by Articles 73 or 74 or Title XIII of the Constitution is the territorial delegate of the Nati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Criteria for ordering redundancies.

Article L1233-5

When the employer makes a collective redundancy for economic reasons, and in the absence of an applicable collective labour agreement, it defines the criteria used to determine the order of redundanci…

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