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Showing 67116720 of 21091 articles for Art. CA Paris 20-5-2009 n° 08-2432

French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Individual monitoring and additional examinations

Article R4412-51-2

…our and agriculture specifies the procedures and methods to be used to check compliance with biological limit values.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-5

I.-The application for approval, accompanied by the information and documents listed in Annex I to Decree No. 2016-1139 of 22 August 2016, shall be sent by the head of the laboratory to the public est…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Punishment of public drunkenness.

Article R3353-5-1

Selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises or to take away in breach of the prohibitions or obligations laid down by decree is punishable by a fourth-class fine.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transparency

Article R3512-1-5

The authority responsible for the public website shall make the reports referred to in Article L. 3512-7 public no later than 1 July of the year in which they are received. These reports remain access…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Temporary suspension of the right to practise for professional incompetence

Article R4124-3-5

…e universities; 2° For dental surgeons, the report is drawn up by three dental surgeons, where applicable, qualified in the same speciality as that of the practitioner concerned, appointed as experts,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who hold evidence of formal qualifications issued by one of these States or by a third State and recognised by a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R4221-13-5

…pinion of the practice licence commission referred to in article D. 4221-1, on the basis of an application submitted and examined in accordance with the procedures laid down by the order referred to i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisation to practise for holders of training qualifications obtained in the province of Quebec

Article D4221-14-5

…sessment report, together with its opinion, to the Minister for Health, who will decide on the application for authorisation to practise.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article A822-28-5

…o each participant. At the end of each colloquium or conference, each participant is given a certificate of attendance by the organising body. The certificate is signed by the organiser's legal repres…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Expenditure

Article D72-103-5

Programme authorisations and commitment authorisations for unforeseen expenditure constitute chapters, respectively, of the investment section and the operating section of budgets voted by nature and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-5

No expenditure incurred on behalf of the local authority may be paid unless it has first been authorised by the local authority's chairman against a duly appropriated credit line..

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