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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Radiation protection inspector

Article R1333-168

I.-The Nuclear Safety Authority appoints the radiation protection inspectors mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 1333-29 from among its staff, as defined inArticle 16 of Law No. 2017-55 of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Professional private equity funds

Article L214-162

A professional private equity fund may only be placed under the specialised professional fund regime with the express agreement of each unitholder.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-16-3

Where the sentenced person is an adult who, in accordance with article 706-112, of a legal protection measure, their curator, guardian or the person designated in application of articles 706-114 or 70…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Execution of investigative measures.

Article 160

The parties and third parties who are required to assist with the investigative measures shall be summoned, as the case may be, by the clerk of the judge conducting the investigation or by the technic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 169

If, at a hearing before a trial court, a person heard as a witness or for information contradicts the conclusions of an expert report or provides new information from a technical point of view, the pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 160

Experts not included on any of the lists mentioned in article 157 shall, each time they are appointed, take the oath provided for by the loi n° 71-498 du 29 juin 1971 relative aux experts judiciaires…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5441-16

Failure to comply with an order to suspend, modify or withdraw an authorisation issued by the Agency pursuant to articles L. 5145-3 and L. 5145-4 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Employee savings schemes

Article L2241-16

The organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements, meet once every five years to start negotiations on setting up one or more inter-company savings plans or co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxation of income and capital gains in the event of transfer of domicile outside France

Article 167

1. A taxpayer domiciled in France who transfers his residence abroad is liable to income tax on the income he has disposed of during the year of his departure up to the date of his departure, on the i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Negotiations on pay, working time and the sharing of added value

Article L2242-16

The negotiations provided for in Article L. 2242-15 give rise to information by the employer on the provision of employees to the trade union organisations or employers' associations mentioned in Arti…

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