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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 612-4

To be eligible for automatic and selective financial support, publishers of on-demand audiovisual media services must meet the following conditions:1° They must be established in France;2° They must h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Informing the authorities about risk prevention

Article R4411-42

The body referred to in article L. 4411-4 is designated by order of the ministers responsible for health, labour, the environment and agriculture. This order sets out the technical details of the body…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Administrative declaration

Article R4427-4

The declaration of first use is not compulsory for laboratories carrying out medical biology analyses. They are only required to declare their intention to provide a diagnostic service for group 4 bio…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Marinas and anchorages.

Article L341-4

The rules for accommodating pleasure craft are set out in…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provision of data by the concessionaire in the case of management under concession of a public service

Article L3131-4

The granting authority or a third party designated by it may freely extract and exploit all or part of these data and databases, in particular with a view to making them available free of charge for r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Obligations incumbent on the person entered in the file

Article R50-46

Failing submission of the supporting documents and declarations within the time limits and conditions defined in Article R. 50-45, the department managing the file shall send the Ministry of the Inter…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General framework for carrying out the tasks of the public service labour inspectorate

Article R8124-4

This Code of Ethics applies to all employees, whatever their duties.It concerns in particular:1° The Director General of Labour and the agents of the Directorate General of Labour involved in the publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Public Health Agency

Article L1413-4

At the request of the Minister for Health, the Agency acquires, manufactures, imports, stores, transports, distributes and exports the products and services needed to protect the population from serio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L713-4

I.-The following are eligible for election as members of a territorial chamber of commerce and industry and a regional chamber of commerce and industry, provided they are at least eighteen years of ag…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Additional penalties applicable to natural persons

Article L823-4

Physical persons convicted under articles L. 823-1, L. 823-2 or L. 823-3 incur the following additional penalties:1° A residence ban for a maximum of five years;2° Suspension of the driving licence fo…

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