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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Occupational health medical file

Article R4624-45-7

…y one of these services, the service responsible for ensuring continuity of the worker's monitoring may request the transmission of his occupational health medical file, except in cases where the work…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-1

…with its marketing authorisation, in order to meet the special needs of the patients concerned. It may be established, in the absence of an authorised medicinal product with the same active substance…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-8-7

The redemption by the fund of its units and the issue of new units may be temporarily suspended by the management company when exceptional circumstances so require and if the interests of the unithold…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article L4433-10-7

The regional development plan may be made compatible for the purposes of an operation declared to be in the public interest. An operation that is not compatible with the provisions of the regional dev…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75-0 B

…n for the last financial year of each three-year period. In the event of renunciation, a new option may not be exercised before the expiry of a three-year period.The option may not be made either for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Inspections and controls

Article L1435-7-2

…authorised under conditions specified by order of the Ministers of Justice, the Interior and Health may, without being criminally liable for these acts: 1° Participate under a pseudonym in electronic…

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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 706-53-11

No reconciliation or connection within the meaning of the article 33 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms may not be made between the file provided for in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1a: Complaints by electronic means

Article D8-2-7

…e judicial police who received the complaint, without being signed by the complainant. This service may, if necessary, enable the victim to make an appointment with the police service or gendarmerie u…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R442-7-1

…pursuant to current legislation and taking into account current practices in the insurance market, may be covered by companies, groups or organisations of any kind authorised to carry on insurance bu…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Grant and publication of the patent

Article R612-73-3

…propriété industrielle rejecting the application to amend the patent referred to in Article R. 612-73 may be the subject of the annulment appeal referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 411-1…

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