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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Principles.

Article L4622-5-1

…he prevention of occupational risks to which these employees are exposed, as provided for in 1°, 1° bis, 2°, 4° and 5° of article L. 4622-2, is carried out jointly under an agreement concluded between…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57-1

Officers of the judicial police or, under their responsibility, officers of the judicial police may, in the course of a search carried out under the conditions provided for in this code, access via a…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisional approval

Article D331-58

…of production costs, specifying the costs to be incurred in France;4° A provisional financing plan;5° A provisional list of authors specifying their nationality and, where applicable, their status as…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 1: The debtor's writ of summons

Article R322-5

…han the fifth working day following the summons, or at the office of the pursuing creditor's lawyer;5° Indication of the upset price as set out in the terms and conditions of sale and the possibility…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R1244-5

…nation, the number of straws kept, the date made available and the number of straws made available; 5° In the case of an oocyte donation, the date of puncture and the number of oocytes donated; 6° Any…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R4314-5

…industrial, craft or liberal profession activity; 4° Initiate investigations on its own initiative; 5° Contacting an economic operator under an assumed identity to obtain commercial information; 6° Ac…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisional profit and loss account for training schools and institutes.

Article R6145-56

The provisional profit and loss account for the schools and institutes mentioned in 3° of article R. 6145-12 shows the operating costs and income attributable to the activity of these schools and inst…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 696-53

…last known place(s) of residence in the issuing State, in the executing State or in another State; 5° The reasons for forwarding the decision to place the person under judicial supervision with regar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Security period

Article 720-5

By way of derogation from the first paragraph of Article 720-4 of this Code, where the Assize Court has decided, pursuant to Article 421-7 of the Criminal Code, to increase the security period to thir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-51

…1-2, the procedures for obtaining consent or the procedures for verifying the absence of opposition;5° If storage or preparation activities for therapeutic purposes are carried out on the same site, d…

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