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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Safeguard measures

Article R4314-14

Articles R. 4314-12 and R. 4314-13 do not apply to agricultural or forestry tractors, their separate technical units, systems or components for which the safeguard procedure provided for in Regulation…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Preventive measures and resources

Article R4412-13

…to the health and safety of workers and that the preventive measures taken pursuant to Articles L. 4121-1 to L. 4121-5 and R. 4412-11 are sufficient to reduce this risk, the provisions of Article R. 4…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General authorisation conditions.

Article R4211-17

Articles R. 1243-4 to R. 1243-10 and R. 1243-12 to R. 1243-14 are applicable to establishments or organisations carrying out the activities of preparation, storage, distribution or transfer of gene th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Consistency between the data of the medical device or in vitro diagnostic medical device and the result of the medical biology examination

Article D6211-8

For the purposes of Article L. 6211-12, the result of the measurement of a test requiring a medical device or an in vitro diagnostic medical device is said to be consistent with the result of the corr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-4

…health centres, by the parties to the agreements referred to in articles L. 162-5, L. 162-9, L. 162-12-2, L. 162-12-9, L. 162-14 and L. 162-32-1 of the Social Security Code; in other cases, they are a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4

…de, at its request, of the data required to determine the number mentioned in 1° of Article L. 5422-12 of this Code so that the latter may check its accuracy ; 2° To enable the processing of challenge…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database

Article 706-55

…les 221-1 à 221-5,222-1 à 222-18,222-34 à 222-40,224-1 à 224-8,225-4-1 à 225-4-4,225-5 à 225-10,225-12-1 à 225-12-3,225-12-5 to 225-12-7and 227-18 to 227-24 of the Criminal Code as well as the offence…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Financial penalties imposed by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products)

Article L5471-1

…well as Articles L. 5426-2, L. 5438-1, 9°, 14°, 15°, 16° and 17° of Article L. 5461-9 and 8°, 11°, 12° and 13° of Article L. 5462-8 may not exceed €150,000 for a natural person and 10% of the turnove…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter VI: City of Paris

Article 1656 quater

…388-0 as well as 3 of I and III of article 1518 A quinquies do not apply to the City of Paris. From 2022, the penultimate paragraph of III of Article 1530 bis, the fifth paragraph of article 1599 quat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Regional Plan for Spatial Planning, Sustainable Development and Equality

Article L4251-2

…jectives defined by the water development and management master plans in application of article L. 212-1 of the Environment Code;b) The objectives and fundamental guidelines of the flood risk manageme…

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