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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Public hospital service

Article L6112-2

I.-Health establishments providing the public hospital service and the health professionals working in them guarantee any person using their services:1° An appropriate level of care, particularly when…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-2

I.-Where provided for by this code, the right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged cable retransmission on national territory of a performer's performance, a phonogram or a videogra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Procedures for implementing genetic characteristic tests and identifications by genetic fingerprinting and informing next of kin

Article L1131-2

An order by the Minister for Health, issued on a proposal from the Agence de la biomédecine and the Haute Autorité de santé, defines the rules of good practice applicable to the prescription and perfo…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Right of withdrawal applicable to distance and off-premises contracts

Article L221-26

The consumer who has exercised his right of withdrawal from a contract for the supply of digital content without a physical medium shall not owe any sum if: 1° The trader has not obtained the consumer…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 15: Dismissal of an employee who is a member of the joint regional inter-trade committee

Article L2411-25

The dismissal of an employee who is a member of the regional cross-industry joint committee referred to in Article L. 23-111-1 may only take place after authorisation from the Labour Inspector. This a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Content of agreements.

Article L3313-2

The profit-sharing agreement defines in particular: 1° The period for which it is concluded ; 2° The establishments concerned; 3° The profit-sharing arrangements adopted; 4° The methods for calculatin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Prohibition.

Article L8241-2

Non-profit lending of labour is authorised. In this case, articles L. 1251-21 to L. 1251-24, 2° and 3° ofarticle L. 2312-6, 9° of II ofarticle L. 2312-26 andarticle L. 5221-4 of this Code as well as a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-2

Subject to obtaining the prior authorisation of the competent authority of their home country and the communication by this authority to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of the req…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Control of training expenditure and activities.

Article L6361-2

The State exercises administrative and financial control over : 1° The vocational training activities carried out by: a) Skills operators; b) Bodies authorised to collect the financial contribution re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks and powers of the regional health agencies

Article L1431-2

The regional health agencies are responsible, taking into account the particularities of each region and the specific needs of defence, for1° Implementing at regional level the health policy defined i…

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