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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Procedure for validating or approving the employment safeguard plan

Article D1233-14-1

The time limit provided for in article L. 1233-57-4 runs from receipt by the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment of the complete file. The file is complete…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article D2311-15-1

To draw up the responsible digital strategy mentioned in article L. 2311-1-1, the municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status mentioned in the sa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Vehicles used for the transport of corpses before coffining (R).

Article D2223-112

The bodywork of vehicles transporting a corpse before committal may not be white in colour. The distinctive signs of the user company, if any, are limited to three per vehicle, each with a surface are…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-18

The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat: 1° Where necessary, the terms and conditions of practice and professional rules ; 2° The operation of the commission referred to in articl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5441-14

The failure of a qualified person of a veterinary medicinal product manufacturing establishment referred to in Article 97 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 or of a person responsible for a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIa: The operation, liquidation and division of matrimonial property regimes and joint ownership between persons bound by a civil solidarity pact or between cohabitees

Article 1136-1

Applications relating to the operation of matrimonial property regimes and indivisions between persons bound by a civil solidarity pact or between cohabitees, as well as those relating to the liquidat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Combating the presence of asbestos

Article L1334-12-1

The owners, or failing that the operators, of built-up buildings shall have them inspected for the presence of asbestos; if asbestos is found to be present, they shall have a diagnosis made of the sta…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article L134-1

The communauté de communes, communauté d'agglomération, communauté urbaine, métropole or métropole de Lyon automatically exercises, in place of its member communes, under the conditions and subject to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R7227-15

The payment by the assembly of expenses relating to the exercise of elected representatives' right to training, under the conditions set by articles L. 7227-12 to L. 7227-16 may only take place if the…

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French Customs CodeIn force
B. - Second class.

Article 415-1

For the purposes of Article 415, the funds or digital assets referred to inArticle L. 54-10-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code are presumed to be the direct or indirect proceeds of one of the offenc…

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