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Showing 19711980 of 56508 articles for Art. Cass. com. 13-1-2009 n° 07-20.097

French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 5: Salaried employees

Article R743-139-2

Unless they are employed by a clerk of several commercial courts, salaried commercial court clerks may only carry out their duties within a single office.They may carry out the tasks devolved to comme…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article R3551-6-13

An order of the minister responsible for civil security sets out the service regulations and rules applicable to the training provided to firefighters, which are compiled in national reference guides.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138-3

All medicinal products are fitted with the tamper-evident device referred to in Article R. 5121-138-2. However, this device is not compulsory for medicinal products on the list set out in Annex I to C…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138-2

I.-The outer packaging or, where there is no outer packaging, the immediate packaging of medicinal products bears safety features consisting of a unique identifier and a tamper-evident device, under t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138-4

The safety features may only be replaced by equivalent safety features in order to verify the authenticity, identify and provide proof of unlawful handling of the medicinal product. This replacement i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART ONE

Article Annexe 13-7

DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN PROTECTION AGAINST IONISING RADIATIONThe terms "radioactive substance", "radioactive material" and "radioactive waste" are defined in article L. 542-1-1 of the French Envi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation

Article R211-13-3

The Director General may, after consulting the Athlete and Trainee Life Council sitting on a disciplinary panel, impose a disciplinary sanction on any athlete or trainee who has breached the instituti…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Approved federations

Article L131-13-1

In the collectivities governed by articles 73 and 74 of the Constitution and in New Caledonia, the statutes mentioned in I ofarticle L. 131-8 of the present code may permit the affiliation of any leag…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: High-level sport

Article L221-13-1

A top-level sportswoman registered on the list of top-level sportswomen mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 221-2 retains the rights inherent to this status, as defined by the present code,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Termination by mutual agreement as part of a collective agreement on collective redundancy by mutual agreement

Article L1237-19-13

The maisons de l'emploi may participate, under conditions laid down by agreement with the companies concerned, in the implementation of measures relating to the revitalisation of employment areas.

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