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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article R3821-13

…pplication of Article L. 3131-17 of the Public Health Code, subject to the following adaptations:1° References to the département are replaced by references to the Wallis and Futuna Islands; 2° The po…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-42

In companies which have introduced a system for organising working time over a reference period longer than a week, employees are informed within a reasonable time of any change in the distribution of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Principles.

Article L3231-3

…collective labour agreements or agreements that include index-linking to the minimum growth wage or references to the minimum growth wage for the purpose of setting and revising the wages provided for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Conditions for exercising departmental mandates

Article L3123-15

…departmental council receive, for the effective exercise of their functions, an allowance fixed by reference to the amount of the salary corresponding to the terminal gross index of the civil service…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Conditions for exercising regional mandates

Article L4135-15

…s of the Regional Council receive an allowance for the actual performance of their duties, fixed by reference to the amount of the salary corresponding to the terminal gross index of the civil service…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings, known as "Redex".

Article R53-21-10

…ll obtain, on request to the public prosecutor of their place of residence, a full statement of the references concerning them entered in the directory.

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article R930-6

References made by provisions of the present code applicable in New Caledonia to provisions relating to civil procedure are applicable there only if there is a locally applicable provision having the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Special allowance agreement for older workers

Article R5123-21

…he conditions under which employees must sign up to the agreements, the methods for calculating the reference salary and the methods for determining the financial contribution from companies.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3a: Similar biological medicinal products

Article R5121-9-4

Decisions to include a medicinal product on the reference list of similar biological groups, to amend these decisions and to remove it from this list are published on the website of the Agence nationa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Financial provisions

Article L4425-9

…llocated to operating expenditure include commitment authorisations and payment appropriations. The option provided for in the first paragraph of this Article is not available to the Assembly of Corsi…

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