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Showing 64916500 of 11310 articles for Art. Loi n° 81-766 – 10 Aug. 1981 – loi Lang

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Accounting

Article D4425-41

The revenues of the Corsican local authority, regional, departmental, interregional and interdepartmental public establishments and any public body resulting from an agreement between the Corsican loc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financial assistance

Article R5213-78

The State entrusts the Agence de services et de paiement with the payment and monitoring of the aids mentioned in article L. 5213-19 of the Code du travail under the following conditions: a) The aid i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Monitoring of blood-derived medicinal products

Article R5121-183

Pharmacovigilance of blood-derived medicinal products involves monitoring, known as traceability, from the time they are manufactured until they are administered to patients. The purpose of this monit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Formation, registration and termination of the contract

Article D6325-1

The employer sends the professionalisation contract, together with the document attached to the contract mentioned in article D. 6325-11 , to the body responsible for collecting and paying contributio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 14: Age limit and extension of service

Article R6152-328

Subject to the age limit extension rights applicable to them under the provisions of article 46 of law no. 87-588 of 30 July 1987 on various social measures, the age limit for practitioners governed b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment

Article R6152-341

The full-time contractual practitioner undertakes to devote all of his professional activity to the service of the employing public health establishment, subject to the activities authorised under the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Formation of the company

Article R6223-79

Natural or legal persons practising the profession of medical biologist may, under the conditions laid down inarticle 31-1 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990, set up a "société de participations f…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Coordination between the treatment of over-indebtedness and the procedure for establishing that a lease has been terminated

Article L714-1

…to Article 24 of Law No. 89-462 of 6 July 1989 aimed at improving rental relations and amending the loi n° 86-1290 du 23 décembre 1986, the commission imposes new deadlines and payment terms for this…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2

…elow it, as well as in the territory of the communes through which national roads 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 pass;2° In Mayotte throughout the territory;3° In Saint-Martin, in an area between the coa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Compulsory expenditure

Article L2573-41

…are replaced by the words: "centre de gestion et de formation créé par l'article 30 de l'ordonnance n° 2005-10 du 4 janvier 2005 portant statut général des fonctionnaires des communes et des groupemen…

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