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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-10

…dence making it likely that they have committed one of the offences referred to in Article 706-55 ; 3° Biological traces from unidentified corpses, collected as part of a preliminary investigation, an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Information for consumers of packaged natural mineral water

Article R1322-44-10

…d for in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011, as amended, on the provision of food information to consumers, the following partic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Relations between the State and collecting institutions or bodies.

Article R221-101

…nts made in the agreement provided for in article R. 221-98, the competent administrative authority may, after giving the institution or body concerned the opportunity to present its observations, wit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article R3252-10

The administrator of the registry of the judicial court or, where applicable, of one of its local chambers, shall pay the sums for which he is accountable to the officer of the Caisse des Dépôts et Co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Medical file

Article R4426-10

When the company disappears or when the worker changes company, the medical file is sent either to the occupational physician of the new company, or to the occupational health inspector, who is respon…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Penalties for irregularities.

Article L1235-10

…be null and void. In the event of cancellation of a validation decision referred to in Article L. 1233-57-2 or a homologation decision referred to in Article L. 1233-57-3 due to the absence or inadequ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-10

…e public or private bodies to which the claimant belongs or from any other legal or natural person; 3° A description of the serious material situation in which he or she finds himself or herself as a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Intervention procedures and methods, emergency procedures and hyperbaric safety manual

Article R4461-10

…he basis of the risk assessment carried out for each workstation and referred to in article R. 4461-3, the employer shall draw up a workstation notice given to each worker in order to inform him of th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article R3124-10

Failure to pay a 25% increase in salary for each hour of overtime worked in excess of one tenth of the duration stipulated in the contract, in breach of the provisions of articles L. 3123-21 and L. 31…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-10

…l Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, opened for signature in New York on 10 January 2000, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions set out in Article 689-1 any perso…

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