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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating rights

Article L333-2-1

The professional league may, for the marketing and management of the audiovisual exploitation rights assigned to the sports companies, create a commercial company subject to the French Commercial Code…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bakers' names and signs

Article L122-17

Professionals who do not themselves ensure, from selected raw materials, the kneading of the dough, its fermentation and shaping as well as the baking of the bread at the place of sale to the final co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Personnel management

Article L1424-9

Professional firefighters, both officers and non-officers, are recruited and managed by the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service, within the framework of the legislative and regulatory…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Provisions specific to certain local public services

Article L1852-8

Professional or volunteer firefighters who are officers and, when they are chosen from among professional or volunteer firefighters who are not officers, fire and rescue centre chiefs and communal or…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Early repayment

Article L313-48

…epayment when repayment is motivated by the sale of the property following a change in the place of professional activity of the borrower or his/her spouse, by the death or forced cessation of their p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-18

…mined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat: 1° Where necessary, the terms and conditions of practice and professional rules ; 2° The operation of the commission referred to in articles L. 4241-7 and L. 424…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Opposition to cold calling

Article R223-6

The professional who habitually carries out telephone canvassing activity shall regularly, and at least monthly, notify the body mentioned in article R. 223-1 in order to ensure that its commercial pr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Vocational training trainees.

Article L6523-6

In Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, with a view to improving the qualifications and facilitating the professional integration of unemployed persons experiencing particular difficulties in accessing employmen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Promotional communications

Article R1223-6

The oral presentation of a plasma referred to in article L. 1223-3 is carried out by a professional referred to in article L. 1223-7. It is accompanied by the hand-delivery by the latter to the health…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-322

…ce of her profession, from any act likely to bring it into disrepute. A midwife may only engage in another activity if such combination is compatible with professional dignity or is not prohibited by…

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