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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions applicable to certain categories of workers.

Article L5523-2

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-5

…Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, done at Rome on 10 March 1988 and revised at London on 14 October 2005, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid down in Article 689-1 any per…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Managing Director

Article R411-17

…or social tourism and leisure facilities and the actions mentioned in articles L. 411-13 and L. 411-14, in compliance with the general conditions of allocation determined by the Board of Directors, an…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inventions by civil servants and public officials.

Article Annexe art. R611-14-1

…echnicians, nuclear physics preparators and nuclear physics prototypists, governed by Decree no. 85-1462 of 30 December 1985 as amended.-Chargés de mission de la recherche du Centre national de la rec…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Provisions relating to the investigation of claims for compensation.

Article R424-11

…content of his comments and of the procedure leading to the decision provided for in article R. 424-14.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single chapter: Customer due diligence and liability.

Article L4231-1

…o collective accommodation conditions incompatible with human dignity, as referred to inarticle 225-14 of the French Penal Code, shall immediately instruct it in writing to put an end to this situatio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article D49-82

…of house arrest under electronic surveillance are those provided for by articles R. 57-10 to R. 57-14 and R. 57-16 to R. 57-18 of this Code, and R. 622-1, R. 622-2, R. 622-4, R. 622-6, R. 622-7, R. 6…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4-3

…cts of the processing mentioned in I of Article D. 5422-4 with the information mentioned in Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, as well as the information relating to the limitati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Tattooing products.

Article R5437-1

…ioned in article R. 513-10-3 ; 2° Failing to make the information provided for in article R. 513-10-14 available to the public;3° Not transmitting, when the Director General of the Agence nationale de…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Extending the stay of students and researchers

Article L422-10

…dence permit bearing the wording "talent-researcher passport" issued on the basis of article L. 421-14 and have completed their research work, shall be issued with a temporary residence permit bearing…

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