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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Refusal to renew.

Article L145-18

The lessor has the right to refuse to renew the lease in order to construct or rebuild the existing building, subject to paying the evicted tenant the eviction compensation provided for in article L.…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Duties to patients

Article R4312-18

…being abused, deprived, ill-treated or sexually assaulted, they must use the most appropriate means to protect that person, exercising caution and circumspection. In the case of a minor or a person wh…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to elections to the various disciplinary boards and chambers

Article R4125-18

…ing the voting process. Ballot papers and envelopes declared invalid or contested shall be appended to it. The other ballot papers, together with the original minutes and the annexes thereto, shall be…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions relating to the accessibility of works to people with sensory disabilities

Article 211-18

The creation of digital subtitling and audio description files and the adaptation of these files to any digital broadcast medium must comply with the methodological requirements of the Charter on the…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Procedure for awarding global contracts applicable to purchasers subject to Book IV

Article R2171-18

…on the examination of the applications and formulates a reasoned opinion on the list of candidates to be retained. The purchaser will draw up a list of candidates admitted to carry out the work.The c…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Administrative penalties

Article L242-18-8

Any breach of the provisions of articles L. 224-25-25 to L. 224-25-26 relating to updates is punishable by an administrative fine of up to 3,000 euros for an individual and 15,000 euros for a legal en…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Autorité des marchés financiers

Article R784-18

I. - Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording in…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Regulations attached to agreements.

Article R6142-18

…the latter may request the suspension of the offender. Exceptionally and in serious cases, the director of a training and research unit may temporarily ban a member of the university hospital centre's…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Exception for people with disabilities

Article R122-18

…by the publisher may only communicate the file transmitted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of 7° of Article L. 122-5, for whom access to these…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions specific to the intervention of a third party authorised to receive payment requests

Article R2192-18

If the contracting authority has recourse to a project manager or any other service provider whose intervention is conditional on the payment of sums due, the intervention of the project manager or se…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
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