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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Harm reduction policy for drug users.

Article R3121-33-1

…Supporting users in accessing their rights, housing and professional integration or reintegration; 4° Providing infection prevention equipment; 5° Providing outreach services outside the centre, in o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Transmission of information on health events to the national focal point

Article R3115-68

…health; 3° An event caused by an unknown or unusual agent, source, vector or route of transmission; 4° An event in which the evolution of cases is more serious than expected or is accompanied by unusu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation.

Article R814-140

A partner who is subject to a definitive disciplinary measure involving a sanction equal to or greater than three months' disqualification may be forced, by the unanimous vote of the other partners, t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Summons to court and service of documents

Article A444-12

If, from the customer's request, the following services are performed within a period shorter than the reference period specified in the table below, they shall give rise to the collection of the incr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registered persons

Article A123-84

…l tax; 3° Natural or legal persons whose income falls into the category of non-commercial profits ; 4° Natural or legal persons whose income belongs to the category of industrial and commercial profit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Deeds relating principally to loans, debts and securities involved in economic activity

Article A444-145

The services relating to the unseizability of the rights of the sole trader in any property, whether built or unbuilt, mentioned in the second paragraph of Article L. 526-1 (numbers 139 to 141 in tabl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities

Article A123-80-3

…e or trading name followed, where applicable, by the acronym, the address of the registered office; 4° The nature of the itinerant commercial or craft activity carried out; 5° The identification of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single section: Shareholdings in commercial companies other than those referred to in 8° of Article L. 4211-1

Article R4211-6

…otal or partial disposal of company assets;3° An assessment of the prudent nature of the investment;4° A technical analysis of the legal qualification of the proposed capital holding in the light of t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Clearances

Article R4216-12

…ap by 5 centimetres; 3° It is forbidden to place one or two isolated steps in the main passageways; 4° The dimensions of staircase steps must comply with good practice; 5° There must be no more than 2…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Protectors and protective devices

Article R4324-3

…t compromising their protective function; 3° They cannot be easily removed or rendered inoperative; 4° They are located at a sufficient distance from the danger zone, compatible with the time required…

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