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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Borrowings

Article D6145-72

Public health institutions may only enter into financial contracts when they are linked to a loan. The following financial contracts are authorised: - interest rate options; - interest rate swaps; - f…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: CONSUMER INFORMATION

Article D111-5-3

The producer communicates, free of charge, to the consumer the essential characteristics of each update mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 111-6. These features relate to: 1° The purpose…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: CONSUMER INFORMATION

Article D111-5-2

The seller shall provide the consumer with the information mentioned in article D. 111-5-1, free of charge, in a legible and comprehensible manner on a durable medium accompanying the sale. The seller…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D8-3

The line managers likely to issue the authorisations mentioned in I of article 15-4 are: 1° For the national police, the directors of the territorial services of the national police, the directors of…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific rules relating to third-country entities

Article D532-37

I. - On receipt of an application for authorisation as referred to in Article L. 532-49, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall check that it is complete and, if so, shall proceed…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Free information, screening and diagnostic centres

Article D3121-22

I. - The application for authorisation as a free information, screening and diagnostic centre is sent by the head of the managing body to the director general of the regional health agency for the reg…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Criminal court

Article D45-4

Following the discovery of the offence, a notice of offence, a payment notice and a request for exoneration form, are sent to the person's home address by simple letter. When the offence is detected,…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Job security contract

Article D1233-50

When the framework agreement mentioned in article L. 6332-21 of this code provides for the financing of the measures provided for in article L. 1233-65, the skills operators respond to the calls for p…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Industrial tribunal members

Article D1423-67

The number of compensable hours that an industrial tribunal member may claim to have devoted to drafting decisions that are clearly linked, in particular because of the identity of a party, the subjec…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-30

Where a bathing water is classified as being of "poor" quality for five consecutive years, a decision to close the bathing site is taken by the person responsible for the bathing water for a period co…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
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