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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Principles and means of prevention

Article R4412-109

…bestos fibres to the lowest level technically possible. These means include : 1° Dust suppression ; 2° Dust extraction at source; 3° Continuous sedimentation of airborne fibres; 4° Appropriate means o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Principles and means of prevention

Article R4412-107

The employer must inform the client of any asbestos found during the operation.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R6123-10

The Board of Directors is convened by its Chairman at least six times a year. It is also convened as of right, on a specific agenda, at the written request of the representative of the Minister for Vo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Institutions of heirs and legacies in general.

Article 1002-1

…herwise, where the succession has been accepted by at least one heir designated by law, the legatee may confine his emolument to part of the property disposed of in his favour. This limitation does no…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Remuneration.

Article L7123-10

…duration of the assignment. The amount of the indemnity, calculated on the basis of this duration, may not be less than one tenth of the total remuneration due to the employee. The allowance is paid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose of agreements.

Article R6142-10

…hospital staff, hospital practitioners who are not subject to the status provided for in article L. 6151-1 may be called upon.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1094-3

The children or descendants may, notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary by the disposing party, require, as regards the property subject to the usufruct, that an inventory of the movable prop…

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

Article R4127-105

No one may be both expert doctor and treating doctor for the same patient. A doctor must not accept a mission of expertise in which his own interests are at stake, or those of one of his patients, one…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Detention of asylum seekers and transmission of their application to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPP)

Article R754-10

When a foreign national who has applied for asylum at an administrative detention centre is transferred to a detention centre before the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Pers…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Application of the provisions of European Union law to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article L712-10

…c Affairs shall draw up a list of EU regulations on restrictive measures taken pursuant to Articles 75 or 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which are applicable to Saint-Pierr…

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