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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Holiday pay funds

Article L3141-33

…obstacle to the accomplishment of this task is subject to the penalties provided for in Article L. 8114-1. The inspectors are approved. This approval may be revoked at any time. Inspectors must not re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Antenatal diagnostics: prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnosis.

Article L2131-3

Any breach of the legislative and regulatory requirements applicable to prenatal diagnosis observed in an establishment or laboratory, and caused by it, shall result in the temporary or permanent with…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-2

Any person conceived by medically assisted procreation with a third party donor may, if they so wish, have access at the age of majority to the identity and non-identifying data of the third party don…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4151-4

Midwives may prescribe medical devices and medicinal products, the list of which is drawn up by the administrative authority and, where appropriate, updated following the placing on the market of a ne…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Economic interest groupings under French law.

Article L251-23

The terms "economic interest group" and "EIG" may only be used by groups subject to this chapter. The public prosecutor or any interested person may request the president of the competent court ruling…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article L2333-96

If the facility referred to in article L. 2333-92 is located less than 500 metres from the territory of one or more communes bordering on the commune establishing the tax, the deliberation provided fo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Creation and local management of services and facilities

Article L3633-4

The metropolis of Lyon may delegate, by agreement, the creation or management of certain facilities or services within its remit to one or more municipalities located within its territory, to one or m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Offences committed by the employer or his delegate.

Article L4741-5

In the event of a conviction pursuant to article L. 4741-1, the court may order, as an additional penalty, that the judgment be posted at the doors of the convicted person's establishments, at the lat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Cooperation agreements.

Article L6134-1

Within the framework of the missions entrusted to them and under the conditions defined by regulation, public or private not-for-profit health establishments may take part in cooperative actions, incl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c) Issuing copies to third parties

Article R167

The public prosecutor or the public prosecutor may, however, object, by a specially reasoned decision, to the issue of a copy of a decision mentioned in 2° of Article R. 166: 1° In the case of a convi…

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