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Showing 631640 of 51993 articles for Art. CE 24-4-2019 n° 419912 confirming CAA Nancy 22-2-2018 n° 17NC00780

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Risk prevention

Article R5139-24

…s well as any event likely to result in their dissemination must be immediately declared to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Agency committee.

Article D6431-24

…ies of staff is the subject of an agreement between the representative trade union organisations concerned. In the event that such agreement cannot be reached, the head of the labour inspection depart…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Control and prohibition of collective water misting systems

Article R1335-22

If the Prefect, on receipt of a referral from the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, considers that one of the requirements resulting from articles R. 1335-16 to R. 1335-20 has not been c…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions specific to the departments of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin.

Article L1226-24

…to his salary for a maximum period of six weeks.During this period, compensation paid by an insurance company or a mutual insurance company is not deducted from the amount of remuneration due by the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Special arrangements for staff of companies providing catering or sleeping accommodation on trains.

Article R221-24

Drivers are entitled to periodic single rest periods of at least thirty-five hours, or double rest periods of at least fifty-nine hours. The number of rest days per twenty-eight day period is set by c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Calculation of tax

Article 220 octies

…III, provided that they are not owned, directly or indirectly, by a television or broadcasting service publisher.II. - Expenses incurred for the production, development and digitisation of a phonograp…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Use and storage of explosive and flammable substances

Article R4227-22

Premises or areas in which substances or preparations classified as explosive, oxidising or extremely flammable are stored or handled, as well as materials in a physical state likely to give rise to r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Declaration, registration of activity and withdrawal of registration

Article R7232-22

In the case provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 7232-8, the legal entity or sole trader who has been the subject of a decision to withdraw the benefit of Articles L. 7233-2 of the Labour…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 11: Advertising of regulated commercial transactions

Article L121-22

Any advertising of:

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Guarantee trusts

Article 2488-5

…ted value on the day of the recharge.On pain of nullity, the recharge agreement drawn up in accordance with the provisions of Article 2488-2 shall be published in the form provided for in Article 2019…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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