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Showing 29212930 of 34678 articles for Art. CE 27-3-2020 n° 421627

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Third-party access to the joint information system of the State, regional hospitalization agencies and health insurance bodies.

Article R6113-32

The departments and bodies responsible for providing information are not obliged to comply with requests for information that are manifestly unreasonable in number or systematic in nature.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Third-party access to the joint information system of the State, regional hospitalization agencies and health insurance bodies.

Article R6113-30

The information contained in the modules mentioned in 2° of article R. 6113-28 or exchanged under 3° of the same article may be communicated to any natural or legal person under the conditions defined…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Recognition of European investigation decisions

Article 694-32

The categories of offences for which an investigation decision may not be refused pursuant to 8° of article 694-31 are as follows:

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R1313-3

…1313-1 includes, in particular:1° The French Environment and Energy Management Agency ;2° The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (National Agency for the Safety of M…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L733-3

…no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 133-12 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 133-13, L. 133-14, except for b) of 1, to L. 133-17Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 133-17-1 Law no. 2018-700 of 3…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single title

Article R811-3

…shall apply in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories:1° The provisions of Book I with the exception of Article R. 133-1, 4° of Article R. 133-2 and Articles R. 135-1 to R. 135-4;Article R. 136…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-30-2

…directors elected by employees or appointed pursuant to Article L. 225-27-1 who have never held office, this training must have begun within four months of their election or appointment..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local semi-public companies

Article L1862-3

…eir deliberative body, the communes of French Polynesia and their groupings may acquire shares or receive, as a fee, contribution shares issued by a semi-public company created by French Polynesia pur…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Recruitment by the user company at the end of an assignment.

Article L1251-38

When the user company hires, after an assignment, an employee made available to it by a temporary employment agency, the length of the assignments completed with this agency during the three months pr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3121-30

Overtime may be worked up to an annual quota. Hours worked in excess of this annual quota give entitlement to compulsory time off in lieu. The hours taken into account for the calculation of the annua…

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