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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Inter-company savings plan.

Article L3333-7-1

…a unilateral document signed by the employer, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 2232-10-1, if the branch agreement provides for this possibility and proposes, in the form of a standard…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-10

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé publishes on its website : 1° The initial compassionate prescribing framework, the protocol for therapeutic use and patient foll…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Health centres.

Article L6323-1-7

Health centres apply the third-party payment system referred to in article L. 160-10 of the Social Security Code and do not charge more than the rates set by the administrative authority or the rates…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of offences relating to trafficking in human beings, procuring or the use of prostitution of minors

Article 706-40-1

People who are victims of one of the offences provided for in articles 225-4-1 to 225-4-6 and 225-5 to 225-10 of the Criminal Code, who have contributed by their testimony to the ascertainment of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-1

…ers of the judicial police and deputy officers of the judicial police mentioned in articles 20 and 21 (1°) are empowered to enter premises for professional use, as well as their annexes and outbuildin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV bis: Procedure applicable to serial or unsolved crimes

Article 706-106-4

…the purpose of tracing the possible criminal career of a person convicted of offences under Article 706-106-1 or for whom there are one or more plausible reasons to suspect that he or she has committe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Geolocation

Article D15-1-7

…2, request any qualified official from the departments, units or bodies referred to in l'article D. 15-1-5.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 722-7

The total amount of financial aid awarded for the promotion of audiovisual works abroad may not exceed 50% of the expenditure incurred by the company in this respect.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions relating to the works

Article 721-7

The management of foreign exploitation rights for cinematographic works, in particular the signing of sales contracts and the collection of the corresponding royalties, is carried out by corporate off…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 733

…e conditional release decision, that decision may be revoked, following the distinctions of article 730, either by the sentence enforcement judge or by the sentence enforcement court, in accordance wi…

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