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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Breastfeeding facilities

Article R4152-21

The breastfeeding room is staffed exclusively by a sufficient number of qualified personnel. These staff keep themselves in a state of rigorous cleanliness.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Economic and financial provisions

Article R5312-21

…to economic and financial control by the State under the conditions set out in Decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management.Pôle emploi is subject to audit by…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R4322-21

Votes may be cast by post or electronically if the National Council so decides in accordance with Article R. 4125-22.

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for approval

Article R212-21

The programming contract, concluded between a group and the exhibitors of cinematographic establishments who are members or between the members of an agreement, provides for :1° A term of performance…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-21

The doctor may waive the prohibition mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 1211-14 when, despite the risk of transmission of a virus by the donor, the therapeutic alternatives to the transpla…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Loading or unloading operations at height.

Article R4534-21

…liged to lean over the empty space in order to pull the load. However, for the loading or unloading of materials or objects weighing 50 kilograms or less, workers may be provided with hooks of suffici…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to elections to the various disciplinary boards and chambers

Article R4125-21

…to disciplinary boards and chambers is fifteen days. This period runs, for the voters, from the day of the election and, for the directors general of the regional health agencies or the minister respo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Tasks and procedures for designating reference medical biology laboratories

Article D6211-21

…ceases to fulfil the conditions for operating a medical biology laboratory provided for in Book II of Part Six or that does not apply the obligations of its specifications may be removed from the lis…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Administration.

Article R6223-21

Apart from the cases provided for by article 19 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to sociétés civiles professionnelles and by article R. 6223-22 imposing special majority conditions, deci…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures specific to the safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms

Article R613-21

The claims referred to in article R. 613-20 are the subject, at the request of the creditors' representative or the liquidator, of the publication, in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et com…

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