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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Flexible working days

Article L3121-59

Employees who so wish may, in agreement with their employer, give up part of their rest days in return for an increase in their salary. The agreement between the employee and the employer must be in w…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Rights of authorised professionals

Article R1111-54

The attending doctor referred to inarticle L. 162-5-3 of the Social Security Code has access to all the data contained in the shared medical record. The holder may grant one or more professionals auth…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Rights of authorised professionals

Article R1111-53

When a professional considers that data concerning the patient's state of health entered in the shared medical record should not be brought to the patient's attention unaccompanied, he or she may make…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-5

Any person whose identity is recorded in the file shall be subject, as a security measure, to the obligations set out in this article. The person is required, either, if he or she resides abroad, to c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57

Subject to articles 56-1 to 56-5 and to respect for professional secrecy and the rights of the defence mentioned in article 56, the operations prescribed by the said article shall be carried out in th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking services providers

Article D775-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions relating to the digital procedure

Article A53-5

Is an advanced electronic seal with qualified certificate within the meaning of Article D. 589-5 an electronic seal in accordance with Article 36 of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliam…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: REFUSAL AND WITHDRAWAL OF RESIDENCE PERMITS

Article R432-5

A resident permit may be withdrawn and replaced ipso jure by a temporary residence permit in the following cases: 1° The foreign national, holder of a resident permit, may not be subject to a deportat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2224-12-2-1

No charges related to payment rejection may be levied by drinking water and wastewater services on natural persons not acting for business purposes who have obtained, for the bill that generated payme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-10-1

When the parallel import application concerns a proprietary veterinary medicinal product which has already been the subject of a parallel import authorisation, and the proprietary veterinary medicinal…

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