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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Use of residential premises

Article R1331-38

Residential premises and their outbuildings, including garages, may not be used for activities, appliances or engines that emit combustion gases when in operation, unless they are designed to protect…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Use of residential premises

Article R1331-39

Odours, lighting, illumination or noise, whether caused by a person or through the intermediary of a person or thing in their care or an animal under their responsibility, must not, by their intensity…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific supervision of credit institutions and investment firms

Article R613-36

…5 to 7 of Chapter II of this Title in order to prevent or sanction breaches of the provisions applicable to them in accordance with Article L. 511-24 as well as breaches of rules of general interest…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific supervision of credit institutions and investment firms

Article R613-35

…of depositors, investors and customers in France. Any measure taken in this respect shall be communicated without delay to the European Commission, the European Banking Authority and the competent aut…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific supervision of credit institutions and investment firms

Article R613-37

Where an institution carrying on business in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, in accordance with Articles L. 511-27…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific supervision of credit institutions and investment firms

Article R613-34

…13, Chapter I of Title I of Book V of this Code or the regulatory provisions adopted for their application, it shall inform the competent authorities of the home Member State so that they can take, wi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-resumption visit

Article R4624-30

…mmend: 1° Adaptations and adjustments to the workstation; 2° Recommendations for redeployment; 3° Vocational training to be organised with a view to facilitating the redeployment of the worker or his…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Issue

Article R5132-37

…tory is recorded in the special register of narcotics or in the computer records and, in the latter case, appended to the editions of the records and countersigned by the parties concerned. The transf…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Issue

Article R5132-33

…on and the three days following the planned date of discharge from the health establishment. In the case of fractional dispensing, the prescription may only be filled for the entire fraction if it is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Specific applications.

Article R5132-39

…arcotics during their manufacture. The same applies to medicinal products or products which, in the case of misuse as defined in article R. 5121-153 or in the case of pharmacodependence as defined in…

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