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Showing 29812990 of 5611 articles for Art. Directive 86/653/EEC – 18 Dec. 1986

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Lists of candidates and individual applications

Article R1441-21

…ve of a list checks and certifies that this list meets the conditions laid down in articles L. 1441-18 to L. 1441-20. The individual candidacy declarations of each candidate on the list are attached t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Duties towards colleagues

Article R4312-88

…may enlist the help of one or more self-employed colleagues, under the conditions set out inarticle 18 of law no. 2005-882 of 2 August 2005 in favour of small and medium-sized enterprises. Each of the…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Researchers

Article L421-15

…ign national who has been admitted to another Member State of the European Union in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the conditio…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Technical sports advisors to sports federations

Article R131-20

In agreement with the president of the federation concerned, the staff carrying out the role of national technical director draw up national technical guidelines which are updated annually. They infor…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to ski lifts and conveyors.

Article R342-17

…the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on cableway installations and repealing Directive 2000/9/EC as amended.If, on the basis of the dossier submitted, it emerges that the planne…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: SAFETY

Article L421-7

…whose reference is published in the Official Journal of the European Union pursuant to article 4 of Directive 2001/95/EC of 3 December 2001 on general product safety; 2° Other French standards; 3° Eur…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-1-6

…een the subject of an equivalence decision by the European Commission on the basis of Article 46 of Directive 2006/43/EC of 17 May 2006. In the absence of a decision by the European Commission, the Hi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Patents for invention

Article R617-2-1

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 771-1

…l of 17 April 2019 and of Council Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA of 26 February 2009 as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/884 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019, the national…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-84

…n distributed ledger technology, and amending Regulations (EU) No 600/2014 and (EU) No 909/2014 and Directive 2014/65/EU.

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