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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Specific provisions for mobile or portable equipment emitting ionising radiation

Article R4451-28

I.-For the equipment mentioned in Article R. 4451-27, the employer shall identify and define an operating area such that the effective dose at its periphery remains below 0.025 millisieverts, integrat…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Appointment of a representative in France

Article 289 A

…the tax department, who undertakes to complete the formalities incumbent on this person and, in the case of taxable transactions, to pay the tax on its behalf. Failing this, the value added tax and, w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article R50-29

For the application of Article 706-24, there is kept, at the General Prosecutor's Office of the Paris Court of Appeal, a listed and initialled register in which are recorded the authorisations to iden…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Financial provisions.

Article L2512-24

At the close of the financial year, the Prefect of Police presents an administrative account to the Paris Council.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Financial provisions.

Article R2512-24

The main budget comprises a budget for the Commune of Paris and a special budget for the Police Prefecture. Each of these budgets is made up of an operating section and an investment section. These tw…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Inspection of products before release for free circulation

Article R512-29

…quantity of product or the low prevalence and distribution of the danger justifies it, sampling is carried out in a sample. This sampling results in a report being drawn up under the conditions laid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-28

I.-For the medical devices mentioned in article R. 5212-26, the operator is required :1° Keep a regularly updated inventory of the devices it operates, mentioning for each of them the common and comme…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Declaration of subcontracting after notification of the contract

Article R2393-28

Acceptance of the subcontractor and, where applicable, approval of its terms of payment are recorded by the signature of the special subcontracting agreement. If the purchaser remains silent for twent…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Relations with the partner health care organisation

Article R6323-29

…a partnership agreement with the health establishment authorised to provide gynaecology-obstetrics care, to which it is adjacent: 1° The procedures for redirecting women during pregnancy, in particul…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 5: Remedies and limitation periods

Article L232-24-2

The acts taken in application of 16° of I of article L. 232-5 may be appealed against by the parties referred to in article L. 232-24 before the Court of Arbitration for Sport alone as part of the app…

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