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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of public information obligations concerning bans on minors

Article R432-2

The fact, for a person ensuring the management of a cinematographic entertainment establishment, of not respecting the obligation provided for in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Additional responsibilities in companies with fewer than three hundred employees.

Article L2143-22

…s belonging to such undertakings, the trade union delegate is, by right, the trade union representative on the social and economic committee.In this capacity, the trade union delegate receives the inf…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Common provisions.

Article L4343-2

…performing a professional act in France, as provided for in articles L. 4341-1 and L. 4342-1 respectively, are required to comply with the professional rules laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Speech therapists.

Article L4341-2

Persons who have obtained the evidence of formal qualifications or authorisation required for the practice of the profession of speech and language therapist are required to register with the departme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Medical auxiliaries.

Article L4423-2

By way of derogation from the provisions of article L. 4311-2, the senior administrator of the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands may, on a proposal from the director of the health agency, aut…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Medical professions.

Article L4421-2

For the application of article L. 4421-1 in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands : a) The procedures undertaken at the prefectures or sub-prefectures are carried out by the services of the s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Offences common to the various forms of commercial company

Article L247-2

…'s capital held by these companies, in accordance with the conditions set out in Article L. 233-13. IV.-The same penalty shall apply if the statutory auditor omits from his report the information refe…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article R422-2

…to offer within three months to the public the services provided for in Article L. 422-1 either individually or as part of a group, or as an employee of another industrial property attorney or of an…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-21

…drinks, and the use of ethyl alcohol and distillates of agricultural origin in alcoholic beverages ;2° The provisions of Articles 1, 2,8 to 11,15,18,28 to 35,38,47 and 48 of Commission Delegated Regul…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-29

…munities of 21 June 1989, as amended, laying down common marketing standards for preserved sardines 2° The provisions of Articles 2 to 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1536/92 of 9 June 1992 laying dow…

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