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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-40-6

…councils and the president of the executive council of Corsica shall transmit each year, before 31 March, to the education authorities, for each local public education establishment under their juris…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Registers of gametes, germinal tissue or embryos

Article R2142-33

…purpose;6° In the case of gamete donation, details enabling the recipient couple or the recipient unmarried woman to be identified.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Employment obligation

Article D5212-7

No later than 15th March of the year following the year in respect of which the declaration relating to the employment obligation is made, the adapted companies, establishments or services providing a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Conciliation prior to disciplinary action

Article R4443-11

…pplicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the version set out in Decree no. 2022-381 of 16 March 2022, subject to the adaptations set out in II. II.- For application in New Caledonia and Fren…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-49

…of Article 20(4) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004, urgent action is essential to protect human health or the environment, pending a final d…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Time savings account.

Article R6152-807-2

…ined under the conditions set out in article R. 6152-807-4. The practitioner's option is made by 31 March of the following year at the latest and is irrevocable. The days mentioned in 1° are deducted…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quality control

Article D6221-21

…assessment bodies to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé by 31 March of the following year at the latest.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-24

…he authority by virtue of the provisions of this sub-section or articles L. 137-4, L. 219-4, L. 331-29 to L. 331-31 and L. 331-33;-the purpose of the referral, which must be substantiated, and the doc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Negotiating and formalising the commercial relationship

Article L441-3

…from that referred to in I of this article. The provisions of IV of this article relating to the 1 March deadline do not apply to this agreement. The expiry or termination of the agreement referred t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-5

…dence with a journalist allowing a source to be identified in breach of the article 2 of the law of 29 July 1881 on the freedom of the press.

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