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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Measures aimed at eliminating pay differentials between women and men in the company and ensuring a balanced distribution of each sex among senior executives and members of management bodies

Article D1142-2-1

For companies with between fifty and two hundred and fifty employees, the indicators mentioned in Article L. 1142-8 are as follows: 1° The pay gap between women and men, calculated on the basis of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Legal system for acts taken by municipal authorities

Article R2131-1

I. - Acts published in electronic form are made available to the public on the municipality's website in their entirety, in an unmodifiable format and under conditions that ensure their preservation,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Tasks of approved professional associations

Article R519-40

The association verifies that its members and the staff concerned comply with the obligations relating to training and continuing professional development set out in articles L. 314-24 and R. 519-15-1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Minimum standards applicable to infant consultations.

Article R2132-11

Doctors assigned to infant consultations must be approved by the doctor in charge of the departmental maternal and child protection service. These doctors must have special knowledge of paediatrics an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Children admitted

Article R2321-2

Within ten days of the date on which the establishment opens, the director of the children's home shall send the director general of the regional health agency a declaration accompanied by the medical…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of movable property by public auction

Article A321-37

The duties of the training supervisor are carried out by a person authorised to manage voluntary sales of furniture by public auction. When the duration of the traineeship exceeds one year, the consei…

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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
Section 3: Professional acts

Article D4362-12-1

The optician who carries out a refraction during the first dispensing following the prescription of corrective lenses may not adapt this prescription.The optician may adapt valid corrective lens presc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional acts

Article D4362-11-1

The optician-mutician may adapt the optical corrections of eye contact lens prescriptions dating from less than :-one year, for patients under 16 years of age;-three years for a medical prescription a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Title V: Supervision of apprenticeship training leading to a diploma

Article R6251-1

For the application of the last paragraph of article L. 6211-2, each certifying minister sets up a mission, placed under his authority, responsible for the pedagogical supervision of apprenticeship tr…

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