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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5461-4-2

Failure by the facilities referred to in Article L. 6322-1 to keep the registers referred to in Article L. 5212-2-1 is punishable by one year's imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5461-6-2

Selling, reselling or using a device referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 or a category of devices without complying with the conditions laid down pursuant to the provisions of 3° of A…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-6-2

For the purposes of investigating and establishing offences constituting illegal employment, the inspection officers referred to in article L. 8271-1-2 may be presented with and obtain immediate copie…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-5-2

The control officers referred to in 1° of Article L. 8271-1-2 may pass on to the officers of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations any information and documents that may be useful to the latter in ca…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-21-1

Any association, professional union or trade union of employees in the branch concerned that has been duly registered for at least two years on the date of the events and whose statutory purpose inclu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General conditions of practice.

Article L4111-2

I.-The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, following the opinion of a committee comprising, in particular, delegates from the national co…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Provisions specific to 1°: "intensive care" and 2°: "dispensatory polyvalent intensive care

Article D6124-28-1

I. - The medical team of an intensive care unit and a polyvalent intensive care unit consists of : 1° Doctors specialising in intensive care medicine or anaesthesia ; 2° Where necessary, other special…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Inspections and controls

Article L1435-7-2

For the sole purpose of recording the offences provided for in Articles L. 5421-2, L. 5421-3, L. 5421-13, L. 5432-1, L. 5432-2, L. 5438-4, L. 5461-3 and L. 5462-3 of the Public Health Code, when commi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: French Anti-Doping Agency

Article L232-7-2

…Agency comprises ten members appointed by decree: 1° Four members of the administrative and judicial courts: a) Two members of the Conseil d'Etat, including at least one Conseiller d'Etat, appointed…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Paternity and childcare leave.

Article L1225-35-2

The period of paternity and childcare leave is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of determining the employee's seniority rights. The employee retains all the benefits he acquired bef…

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