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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Visits and seizures

Article L512-57

The visit is carried out in the presence of the occupier of the premises or his representative.The occupier of the premises may designate one or more representatives to attend the visit and sign the r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D6211-5

An order of the Minister for Health shall determine the nature of the samples to be kept after the analytical phase has been completed, as well as the duration and conditions of storage of these sampl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical transport.

Article L6312-5

…th agency and with regard to the call reception and regulation centres mentioned in article L. 6112-5;the conditions under which the regional health agency organises the departmental on-call service e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: National Committee.

Article R4643-5

…oves the budget; 4° Approves the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts for the financial year; 5° Authorises acquisitions and sales of real estate and loans. The National Committee may delegate t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities.

Article L2353-5

When exceptional circumstances arise which considerably affect the interests of the employees, in particular in the event of relocation, closure of an undertaking or establishment or collective redund…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article L3121-51

…1-48 ; 2° Set the procedures for recovering hours lost in the cases provided for in article L. 3121-50.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Special provisions concerning the content of award notices

Article R2183-5

Under the conditions laid down in Article L. 2132-1, certain information on the award of the contract may not be published if its disclosure would impede law enforcement, would be contrary to the publ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IX: Leasing of shares

Article L239-5

Any interested party may request the president of the court ruling in summary proceedings to enjoin the legal representative of the joint stock company or limited liability company, under a penalty pa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Relations between the Lyon metropolitan authority and the municipalities located on its territory

Article L3633-5

The metropole of Lyon may send to the municipal councillors of the communes located on its territory a copy of the notice of meeting sent to the metropolitan councillors before each meeting of the cou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-5

The Public Prosecutor grants or refuses, by order, authorisation to effectively exercise the attributions attached to the status of judicial police officer.When considering refusing authorisation, the…

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