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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Article A212-121

Candidates who obtain an average of 10 out of 20 or more in all the tests defined in article A. 212-120 are offered final admission to the examination for the common part of the third-degree state dip…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Article A212-120

Candidates for the examination for the common part of the third-degree state diploma in sports education must pass tests relating to the knowledge programme set out in annex II-8 to this code. This ex…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-40-1

Where there is no need to validate the penal composition proposal because it relates to an offence punishable by a prison sentence of up to three years and consists of a composition fine not exceeding…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-41-1

The obligation laid down in 4° bis of article 41-2 to follow a rehabilitation and awareness programme involving the installation of an alcohol ignition interlock device on his vehicle at his own expen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Quasi-machines

Article R4313-10

The manufacturer, importer or any other person responsible for placing partly completed machinery on the market shall draw up and sign a declaration of incorporation in which he declares the technical…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Quasi-machines

Article R4313-11

The assembly instructions and the declaration of incorporation accompany the partly completed machine until it is incorporated into the final machine, and form part of the technical file for that mach…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Implementing provisions

Article R4313-12

Joint decrees by the ministers responsible for labour, agriculture, customs, industry and consumer affairs lay down : 1° The content of the declaration of conformity for machinery; 2° The model of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Implementing provisions

Article R4313-13

The issue of the EC declaration of conformity or the declaration of incorporation and the affixing of the CE marking carried out in a Member State of the European Community shall have the same effect…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Advertising in international matters

Article 1303-1

Where the marriage record is kept by a French authority, that authority shall mention in the margin of that record, at the request of the spouses or of one of them, the record designating the law appl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting tariffs

Article R444-20

I.-Pursuant to 1° of Article L. 444-5, practising professionals on 1 January of the calendar year shall provide the Ministers of Justice and the Economy, for the purposes of statistical verification,…

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