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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Additional rules applicable to bank and payment services brokers and their agents

Article R519-31

…in article L. 511-6 when they may be useful in assessing the customer's background and, where applicable, the risk incurred. II. - Intermediaries must refrain from transmitting false statements or in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Disabled workers

Article D2241-3

The three-yearly negotiations on the professional integration and continued employment of disabled workers are based on a report drawn up by the employer presenting, for each sector of activity, the s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Economic warning rights

Article R2312-30

…a board of directors or supervisory board, or in economic interest groupings, the directors communicate the report of the social and economic committee, or where applicable the economic commission, t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article D1432-30

…1432-28, responsible for proposing or appointing full and alternate representatives, shall communicate their names to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, within two months of the vac…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions (R).

Article R5215-3

For the application of article L. 5215-29 : - An operation is considered to be a coherent whole of such a nature as to be put into service without any additions; - An operation is considered to have b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Accreditation and certification

Article R4461-36

To obtain the accreditation provided for in 2° of Article R. 4461-29, the applicant organisation must meet the conditions laid down in the accreditation reference framework defined by the French Accre…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medico-technical committee.

Article D4622-30

The medico-technical committee meets at least three times a year. It draws up its own rules of procedure. It reports its findings to the Board of Directors and, as appropriate, to the inter-company co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to requests for information issued by the French services

Article R49-35

The request for transmission drawn up, pursuant to Article 695-9-33, by the departments or units mentioned in Article 695-9-31, shall contain the information listed in the model in Annex B to Framewor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Staff reports and monitoring of the judicial activities of judicial police officers (Provisions adopted for the application of articles 13, 16, 19-1, 224 to 230 and R. 14 to R. 15-6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)

Article D44-3

…own by the Minister of Justice. They must include a detailed general assessment, as well as a numerical mark from 0 to 10 and an assessment of each of the following elements when they have been observ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Flat-rate grant.

Article R2334-3

…mune to the product of the difference between its population recorded in respect of the year of allocation and that recorded in respect of the year preceding the allocation by an amount of €64.46 and…

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