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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative closure and cessation of activity

Article R8272-9

Where the activity of the employer in question is carried out in a temporary workplace or in an establishment not belonging to his company, the Prefect of the département within whose jurisdiction the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exclusion of administrative contracts

Article R8272-11

When a temporary exclusion order is issued against a company, this order applies to the company and its legal manager, who may not bid for other administrative contracts, either personally or through…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exclusion of administrative contracts

Article R8272-10

To determine the duration of the exclusion from administrative contracts of the person who has committed the offence in accordance with article L. 8272-4, the Prefect shall take into account the natur…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative closure and cessation of activity

Article R8272-8

To determine the duration of the closure of up to three months of the establishment(s) used to commit the offence in accordance with article L. 8272-2, the Prefect shall take into account the nature,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative schemes

Article L1333-11

…record and automated processing of personal data covered byarticle 31 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, with the exception of identification fi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Transitional provisions relating to the solvency margin.

Article R334-30

…1 to 17 of article R. 321-1, and whose total annual written premiums or contributions as at 31 July 1978, including incidentals and after deduction of cancellations, do not reach six times the minimum…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Sociétés coopératives ouvrières de production, agricultural cooperatives.

Article R3323-9

…financial year, to the net management surpluses defined in article 32 of law no. 78-763 of 19 July 1978 on the status of sociétés coopératives de production, less the fraction equal to 25% of these s…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-14

…rade and Companies Register shall be drawn up in accordance with the conditions set out in Article 15 of Decree n°84-406 of 30 May 1984 relating to the Trade and Companies Register. Notwithstanding ar…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention services.

Article L4622-9-3

…to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC, and with Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, files and freedoms; 5°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: National health data system

Article L1461-7

…the designation and authorisation of persons authorised to access the national health data system; 5° Determines the conditions under which the bodies mentioned in 1° of this article guarantee any pe…

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