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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Funeral operations

Article L2223-47

…opean Economic Area may practise all or some of these professional activities mentioned in Articles L. 2223-23 et L. 2223-41 subject to : 1° They are legally established in a Member State or another S…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Working conditions and forward-looking management of jobs and skills

Article L2241-12

The organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements meet, at least once every three years, to negotiate on working conditions, forward-looking management of jobs…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Legal status of medical devices.

Article L5211-6

…d in particular: 1° The procedures for filing and updating the declarations provided for in Article L. 5211-3-1 ; 2° The procedures for issuing medical devices prescribed in another Member State of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives.

Article L5312-4

In the cases mentioned in articles L. 5312-1, L. 5312-2 and L. 5312-3, and in all cases where the interests of public health so require, the health authorities shall, if necessary, inform the general…

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

Article L5142-8

The following shall be determined, as necessary, by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, after obtaining the opinion of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Tourist tax and flat-rate tourist tax

Article L2333-26

I. - Subject to Article L. 5211-21, a tourist tax or flat-rate tourist tax may be instituted by deliberation taken by the municipal council before 1 July of the year to be applicable from the followin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Financial penalties imposed by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products)

Article L5471-1

I.-The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may impose a financial penalty on the perpetrator of a breach of the provisions of articles L. 5421-8 , L. 5422-18 , L. 5423-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Collection, preparation and storage of blood, blood components and labile blood products.

Article L1221-12

…alth products, is subject to authorisation issued by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé under conditions defined by decree. The import or export of blood, its comp…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Public auction sales.

Article L322-2

Sales of goods after judicial liquidation are made in accordance with Articles L. 642-19 et seq. They may be conducted by the ministry of judicial auctioneers, notaries or bailiffs when they take plac…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contributions to the account

Article L6323-33

…training account of the beneficiary of a work support and assistance contract referred to inarticle L. 311-4 of the Code de l'Action Sociale et des Familles (Social Action and Family Code ) is funded…

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