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Showing 48614870 of 70754 articles for Art. L 225-209-2 · Arts. R 225-160-1 to R 225-160-3

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Special provisions applicable to work equipment used for lifting loads

Article R4323-35

When work equipment used for lifting loads is stationary, no load may be suspended from the hook.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-33

If the quality control has led to the reporting of a risk of incident as provided for in Article R. 5212-31, the operator shall notify the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médic…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Registration in the file

Article R50-32

Verification of the identity of persons entered in the file provided for in the first paragraph of Article 706-25-5 is carried out, where possible, in the light of information communicated to the crim…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 1: Seizure operations

Article R524-2

Within a period of eight days, on pain of nullity, the protective attachment is notified to the debtor by a bailiff's deed. Under penalty of nullity, this act shall contain 1° A copy of the court's au…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 5: Free organisation of medical practice

Article R6146-9-2-1

I. - For the application of the second paragraph of article L. 6146-1-2, the director and the chairman of the establishment's medical commission inform the establishment's medical commission and the n…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions adapting Book II.

Article L912-2

The last paragraph of Article L. 225-43 and that of Article L. 225-91 are deleted.

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Conditions for entry into or exit from national territory of biological samples

Article R1245-30

The biological samples referred to in the third paragraph of II of Article L. 1245-5-1 may be obtained in a Member State of the European Union or supplied to a Member State of the European Union or im…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Master and feeder undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities

Article R214-31

The investment of a UCITS in another UCITS governed by French or foreign law may not exceed the limit set in article R. 214-24 unless it has been authorised by the Autorité des marchés financiers to b…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Administrative declaration

Article R4427-3

A declaration of first use is also sent to the labour inspection officer, at least thirty days before their first use, for biological agents not yet classified within the meaning of article R. 4421-4,…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Facilities and services managed by the network's establishments under public service delegations.

Article R712-35

The transmission to the supervisory authority of the deliberations relating to the delegation agreements is accompanied by: 1° A multiannual operating outlook showing, in particular, the conditions fo…

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