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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97-2

The persons referred to in the first paragraph of I of article R. 4412-97 shall provide the operators responsible for the location survey with any information in their possession that may be useful in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Detention

Article R57-9-18

…ational management of persons detained in prisons (GENESIS), the information and personal data that may be recorded therein, the operating and access rules, as well as the rights of the persons concer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Cooperation between Asset Recovery Offices of the Member States in tracing and identifying the proceeds of crime or other crime-related property pursuant to Council Decision 2007/845/JHA of 6 December 2007

Article 695-9-51

Within this framework, these services may obtain any useful information from any natural or legal person, public or private, without professional secrecy being enforceable against them, subject to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R5125-24-9

Each société de participations financières de profession libérale de pharmaciens d'officine may be subject to occasional checks on the scope of its activities, as prescribed by the Conseil national de…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Disciplinary proceedings before the Enforcement Committee

Article R232-92-1

…rson concerned is unable to be informed of the reasons for the challenge within this time limit, he may submit the challenge request at the latest before the end of the hearing. If the member concerne…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Prevention of offences committed via the Internet

Article 67 D-9

…ning of Article 3(g) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 referred to above, may ask the court seised pursuant to the second paragraph of Artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Provisions applicable to categories of securities being phased out.

Article L228-35-9

…l. Repayments made prior to the full redemption or cancellation of the non-voting preference shares may be cancelled. In the event of a capital reduction not due to losses, non-voting preference share…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-3

The operations mentioned in articles 706-95-1 and 706-95-2 are carried out under the authority and control of the magistrate who authorised them and may not, on pain of nullity, have any purpose other…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3b: Hybrid specialities

Article R5121-9-6

…lfil the conditions for being a reference proprietary medicinal product in an existing hybrid group may, by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6113-9-1

…I of article R. 6113-5 to implement the activities mentioned in this chapter, this service provider may not retain the data made available by the institution beyond the period strictly necessary for t…

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