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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Administrative penalties.

Article L8272-4

…he administrative authority is aware of an official report of an infringement provided for in 1° to 4° of article L. 8211-1, it may, if the proportion of employees concerned so warrants, having regard…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing and administrative control.

Article R3313-4

When the agreement has been entirely and exclusively drafted by means of a website managed by the body mentioned inarticle L. 225-1 of the Social Security Code following a procedure likely to guarante…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Right to support

Article R5131-4

The State, in consultation with the region, establishes strategic guidelines for the implementation of the right to support for young people at risk of exclusion from the labour market as referred to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cancer centres.

Article L6162-11

The multiannual contract of objectives and resources mentioned in 1° of article L. 6162-9 is enforceable as soon as it has been signed by all the parties. The 2° bis and the penultimate paragraph of a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Consultation prior to voluntary interruption of pregnancy

Article R2212-1

…a family planning or education centre approved in application of article L. 2311-2 ; 3° Repealed ; 4° Or in a body approved under the conditions laid down in articles R. 2212-2 and R. 2212-3.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Designation of the country of return

Article L721-4

The administrative authority may designate as the country of return:1° The country of which the foreign national is a national, unless the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Pe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-4

The data relating to the third-party donors mentioned in Article L. 2143-3, the data relating to their donations and to the persons born as a result of these donations, as well as the identity of the…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Tattooing products

Article L5437-4

…of the company that were used to commit the offences, in accordance with the conditions set out in 4° of the said article 131-39.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Surface fresh water used or intended to be used for the production of water intended for human consumption

Article R1321-40

…y which a given body of water receives substances contained in the soil without human intervention; 4° In the case of surface waters of lakes no more than twenty metres deep, which take more than one…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Offences committed by a person other than the employer or his representative.

Article R4741-4

…agreements concluded with them, in disregard of article R. 4532-91, the draft rules of the college; 4° Failing to ensure, in disregard of article R. 4532-94, that minutes of college meetings are sent…

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