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Showing 15811590 of 56895 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 10-1-1995 n° 34

French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to subsequent contracts

Article R2162-10

When a framework agreement is concluded with several economic operators, the contracting authority organises an invitation to tender in accordance with the following procedure:1° For each of the subse…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information, commercial practices, contracts and credit

Article L511-10

In the context of the administrative cooperation organised by Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 on cooperation between national authorities re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operation.

Article L4422-10

The President alone is responsible for policing the Assembly within its precincts. He may have any person who disturbs order expelled from the sittings room.The dates and agenda of sittings are decide…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article L743-10

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, in the wording indicated in t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: The Enforcement Division of the Court of Appeal.

Article D49-10

The Chambers for the Enforcement of Sentences whose territorial jurisdiction exceeds, in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of l'article 712-13, that of the court of appeal where t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inter-regional health plan and specific regional health plan

Article R1434-10

The Minister for Health shall, by decree, draw up a list of heavy equipment and healthcare, preventive or medico-social activities with specific characteristics, in particular due to their highly tech…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Toilet cubicles

Article R4228-10

There is at least one toilet and one urinal for every twenty men and two toilets for every twenty women. The number of employees taken into account is the maximum number of workers simultaneously pres…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Risk assessment

Article R4412-10

The results of the risk assessment are recorded in the single risk assessment document provided for in Article R. 4121-1.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Practice of control medicine.

Article R4127-102

The examining doctor must inform the person he is going to examine of his mission and the legal framework in which it is being carried out, and confine himself to this. He must be very circumspect in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

Article R4127-106

When entrusted with a mission, the medical expert must recuse himself if he considers that the questions put to him are not related to medical technique, to his knowledge, to his possibilities or that…

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