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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Biological analyses and screening tests.

Article D1221-6

The following biological analyses and screening tests are carried out for each donation of blood or blood components intended for the preparation of labile blood products for direct therapeutic use:1°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to neighbourhood noise

Article R1336-6

…en or closed, is generated by professional activity equipment, the harm is also deemed to have been caused if the spectral emergence of this noise, as defined in article R. 1336-8, is greater than the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Administrative organisation (R)

Article R2221-65

…mmunes with fewer than 3,500 inhabitants, the operating board may be the municipal council. In this case, the operating board may be chaired by the mayor or by one of its members, appointed by the may…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Administrative organisation (R)

Article R2221-66

When the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article L. 2221-13 the committee of the syndicat de communes is enlarged to include outside persons to exercise the powers of the operating board, with t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Administrative organisation (R)

Article R2221-64

The operating board deliberates on the categories of business for which the town council has not reserved decision-making power for itself or for which this power is not assigned to another authority…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Gender equality in the workplace

Article R2242-6

In setting the rate of the penalty, account is taken of the reasons for the employer's failure to comply, the measures taken by the company with regard to gender equality in the workplace and the empl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Control by the administrative authority

Article D3345-6

…approval procedure is conducted within four months of the filing of the agreement or its amendment, carried out under the conditions set out in articles D. 2231-2, D. 2231-3 and D. 2231-7. The compete…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Territorial Conference on Health and Autonomy

Article D1441-6

…y comprises seven colleges whose members have the right to vote: 1° College of representatives of local authorities: a) Two representatives of the territorial authority of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, ap…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Agreements concluded with professional organisations

Article R4321-6

The agreements provided for in article L. 4321-5 are concluded between the ministers responsible for labour or agriculture and the representative national employers' organisations.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sale and transfer of shares.

Article R4113-60

…t registry to be placed in the file opened in the name of the company. Where the transferor, in the case provided for in article R. 4113-51, has refused to sign the deed, a copy of the summons issued…

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