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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Bonuses

Article R2372-6

For project management contracts relating to works to which the provisions of Book IV apply, tenderers who have submitted services in accordance with the consultation documents are awarded a premium.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: The Competition Authority.

Article L462-2

The Authority must be consulted by the Government on any draft regulatory text instituting a new regime that has the direct effect of:1° Subjecting the exercise of a profession or access to a market t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-9-3

In order to be able to continuously assess the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product as defined in the first paragraph of Article L. 5121-9, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Legal system for acts taken by municipal authorities

Article D2131-5-1

…authorities in accordance with one of the formalised procedures within the meaning of Article L. 2124-1 of the Public Order Code.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Machinery

Article R4311-4

The design and construction obligations for the placing on the market of "machinery" apply to work equipment designated below by the word "machinery" and included in the list below: 1° Machinery; 2° I…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R4311-1

Any work equipment or means of protection which has not actually been used in a Member State of the European Community and which is exhibited, offered for sale, sold, imported, hired out, made availab…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation procedures.

Article R5141-36

For the purposes of Article L. 5141-5, type II variations and extensions as defined in 3° and 4° of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2008 of 28 November 2008 concerning the examination…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Vigilance of the health products mentioned in 18° and 19° of Article L. 5311-1

Article R5232-16

The purpose of the vigilance exercised over the software mentioned in 18° of Article L. 5311-1 and the devices mentioned in 19° of the same article, used in medical biology laboratories, is to monitor…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138

Without prejudice to the information required by other legislative and regulatory provisions, the labelling of the outer packaging or, where there is no outer packaging, the labelling of the immediate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-91

For the application of 3° of article L. 228-99, the adjustment equalises, to the nearest hundredth of a share, the value of the securities that are obtained in the event of the exercise of the rights…

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