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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences

Article R1412-1-2

…le L. 1412-2 are proposed by the following persons:-two representatives of associations of patients and users of the healthcare system, by the President of the Union nationale des associations agréées…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds relating to ownership and transfer of ownership

Article A444-90-1

I.-The transfer of ownership free of charge of the movable and immovable property mentioned in article L. 719-14 of the Education Code gives rise to the collection of a proportional fee, according to…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIc : Mobile electronic anti-seizure devices for the protection of victims of violence

Article 1136-19

…l of the mobile electronic anti-tampering device, warning them that they are approaching the victim and that there is a risk that the warning distance will be disregarded; such failure to comply may n…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Commission nationale de la négociation collective, de l'emploi et de la formation professionnelle (National Commission for Collective Bargaining, Employment and Vocational Training)

Article R2272-1

I. - The National Commission for Collective Bargaining, Employment and Vocational Training comprises : 1° The Minister for Labour or his representative, Chairman ; 2° The Minister for Agriculture or h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Use of funds by skills operators to pay for work-linked training, personal training accounts and skills development for companies with fewer than fifty employees

Article L6332-17-1

A decree shall determine the conditions of application of this section.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Healthcare waste produced by patients undergoing self-treatment and users of self-tests

Article R1335-8-1-1

…rinciple of extended producer responsibility, provided for by the provisions of article L. 4211-2-1 and those of I of article L. 541-10 of the Environment Code, to which the producers of perforating m…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Failure to declare or late declaration

Article 1728

…is applicable from the first day of the seventh month following that of the expiry of the six-month and twenty-four-month periods provided for respectively in articles 641 and 641 bis.The 40% increase…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Assisted witnesses

Article 113-1

Any person named in an initiating indictment or supplementary indictment who has not been indicted may only be heard as an assisted witness.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 6: Guardianship.

Article 1254-1

…the application of the article 511 of the Civil Code, where the protected person's resources allow and the director of the registry considers it useful, the latter may request, at the protected perso…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 4: The appeal.

Article 1242-1

When the appeal is lodged by the guardianship judge, he or she shall attach to the file a note setting out the grounds for his or her appeal.

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