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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Illegal businesses

Article L352-8

…t to the Autorité for approval a realistic short-term financing plan designed to bring the eligible basic own funds to at least the level of the Minimum Solvency Capital Requirement within three month…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Help with professional integration

Article L5134-114

…the qualification or skills to be acquired during the future employment period. These commitments must cover the training activities, carried out primarily during working hours or outside working hou…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Board of Directors and Director.

Article L5322-1

…entatives of the State ; 2° Three deputies and three senators; 3° Representatives of the compulsory basic health insurance schemes; 4° Representatives of healthcare professionals authorised to prescri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Self-employed practitioners

Article L6154-3

…all the establishments in which the shared private practice is carried out.The managing bodies of a basic health insurance scheme communicate to the director and the chairman of the private practice c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to neighbourhood noise

Article R1336-4

…rastructures and vehicles on them, aircraft, special national defence activities and installations, basic nuclear installations, installations classified for environmental protection and public and pr…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 15: Hospitalisation at home activity

Article R6123-141

…low: 1° Children requiring palliative or end-of-life care may be cared for by facilities holding a "basic" authorisation only. For this type of care, the holder of the home hospital care authorisation…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Refusal to renew.

Article L145-22

The lessor may refuse to renew the lease exclusively in respect of the part concerning the residential premises ancillary to the commercial premises in order to live in them himself or have them lived…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Legal status of medical devices.

Article L5211-2

…ovisions of II, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé has the status of competent authority for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliam…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Public advertising

Article R5122-4

…include any element which : 1° Makes medical consultation or surgical intervention appear superfluous, in particular by offering a diagnosis or recommending treatment by mail order; 2° Suggest that t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Embryo research

Article R2151-4

…or the unmarried woman are also informed that, where applicable, cells derived from embryos may be used in a cell therapy preparation or in an advanced therapy medicinal product for exclusively thera…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
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