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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Occupational health medical file

Article R4624-45-8

…also exercise his rights of rectification, erasure and restriction, as provided for in Articles 16 to 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, with the occupational health and prevention service. Subject to t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Taxes specific to resorts

Article R2333-82-4

…directly provides all or part of the organisation and financing of the event.The expenses referred to in IV of article L. 2333-55-3 may be charged to the casino;2° When the casino delegates all or pa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Expertise within the framework of consultation on the company's strategic orientations

Article L2315-87-1

The chartered accountant's mission covers all the economic, financial, social and environmental factors needed to understand the company's strategic direction.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title III: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article R*834-1

Article R.* 821-1 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-8

…shall directly notify the Ministry of the Interior, which shall immediately forward the information to the competent police or gendarmerie services, in the event of a new entry or change of address co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Secure surveillance and secure detention

Article R53-8-42

…substitute members for the same term and in accordance with the same procedures. The Public Prosecutor's Office at this court is provided by the General Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Cassation.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

Article R53-8-54

…the planned end of the detention period, the judge gives his opinion on the renewal of the measure to the public prosecutor at the court of appeal. The latter will refer the matter to the multi-disci…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

Article R53-8-53

…urity Measures is consulted by the sentence enforcement judge, or failing this by the public prosecutor, at least eighteen months before the release of the persons mentioned in Article 706-53-13, so t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

Article R53-8-77

Persons held in the centre come under the jurisdiction of one of the vice-presidents in charge of enforcing sentences of the Paris judicial court, appointed by the first president of the Paris court o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Secure surveillance and secure detention

Article R53-8-43

Appeals against decisions of the national court for secure detention are heard by the Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation.

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