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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Enforcement Committee

Article L561-39

I. - The National Enforcement Committee is made up of a member of the Conseil d'Etat as chairman, appointed by the vice-chairman of the Conseil d'Etat, a member of the Cour de cassation, appointed by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Extension and enlargement procedures.

Article L2261-25

The Minister of Labour may exclude from extension, after a reasoned opinion has been given by the National Commission for Collective Bargaining, any clauses that conflict with legal provisions. The Mi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Introduction of part-time working arrangements

Article L3123-26

In the absence of a collective agreement, part-time working hours may be worked on the employer's initiative, after consulting the social and economic committee. In companies without staff representat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy

Article L3142-113

In undertakings with less than three hundred employees, the employer may refuse the leave or the change to part-time work:1° If, after consulting the Social and Economic Committee, the employer consid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1544-5

For the application in New Caledonia of article L. 1142-7, the first sentence of the first paragraph is replaced by the following provisions: "The matter may be referred to the commission by any perso…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-4

The data relating to the third-party donors mentioned in Article L. 2143-3, the data relating to their donations and to the persons born as a result of these donations, as well as the identity of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Compulsory transmission of individual data to the health authority.

Article L3113-1

I.-Doctors and managers of public and private medical biology departments and laboratories report:1° Cases of diseases requiring urgent local, national or international intervention to the regional he…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-6

A doctor who ascertains that the person he is caring for needs protection in the acts of civil life, for one of the reasons set out in article 425 of the Civil Code, may make a declaration to the publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Admission to psychiatric care by decision of the State representative.

Article L3213-5-1

The representative of the State in the département may at any time order the psychiatric assessment of persons subject to a psychiatric care measure ordered in application of this chapter or chapter I…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Ingredients and emissions

Article L3512-15

I.-The sale, distribution or offer free of charge of cigarettes whose maximum tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide content exceeds the levels set by order of the Minister for Health is prohibited. II.-Th…

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