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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97-5

…ort concludes either that asbestos-containing materials or products are not present or are present, and in the latter case specifies their nature, location and estimated quantity. The content of this…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97

…1133 of 24 December 1996 relating to the ban on asbestos, adopted in application of the Labour Code and the Consumer Code, or to which the ban provided for by this decree is not applicable.II. - The s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97-6

The location report completes the traceability and mapping documents relating to the furniture and buildings within its scope. The person referred to in the first paragraph of I of article R. 4412-97…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97-4

When the location cannot be dissociated from the undertaking of the operation itself for technical reasons communicated by the location operator to the person mentioned in the first paragraph of I of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-99

The employer must transcribe the results of its risk assessment for each process in the single risk assessment document. The document is updated whenever a process is modified, resulting in a change i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: General obligations of traders

Article A123-11-2

…a credit institution or by an institution or service mentioned in article L. 518-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code;b) Through an advance payment account opened with the aforementioned single body,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R712-16-2

…not submitted observations by the end of the periods referred to in 1° to 5° of article R. 712-16-1 and, at the latest, on the day on which oral observations are presented. The Director General of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L8323-1-2

…rticle L. 8271-6-4 in Mayotte, the following words are inserted after the words: "articles L. 213-1 and L. 752-1 of the Social Security Code," the words: "article 22 of order no. 96-1122 of 20 Decembe…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Specific insurance accounting policies and valuations

Article A343-2-2

…eplacing the capital C by the value of the freehold at the lowest price on the day of the inventory and, for other investments, the estimated value as provided for in article 121-6 of the aforemention…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Industrial property qualification

Article R421-1-2

The reality and content of the professional practice of the persons referred to in Article R. 421-1-1 as well as their knowledge of the ethical rules relating to the profession of industrial property…

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