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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The French Horse and Riding Institute

Article R211-19

The Institut français du cheval et de l'équitation, governed by articles R. 653-13 to R. 653-29 of the code rural et de la pêche maritime (rural and maritime fishing code), runs a school located in Sa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Worker monitoring and individual health monitoring

Article R4452-31

The health professional referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 4624-1 shall, for each worker likely to be exposed to artificial optical radiation in excess of the exposure limit values defin…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R370-3

The balance sheet value of the shares and units referred to in 6°, 7° to 7°c of Article R. 332-2 and of any other security not admitted to trading on a regulated market may not exceed 30% of the dispe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions.

Article R1311-12

Persons performing the techniques referred to in articles R. 1311-1 and R. 1311-6 shall inform their customers, before they undergo these techniques, of the risks to which they are exposed and, after…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health surveillance, safety and policing

Article R1435-9

The powers of the Prefect of the département mentioned in articles R. 1435-1 to R. 1435-6 are exercised in the département of Paris by the Prefect of the Ile-de-France region, Prefect of Paris, and th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Ban on recruiting new apprentices

Article R6225-12

The body responsible for registering the contract and, where applicable, the department responsible for educational supervision referred to in article R. 6251-1, will be notified without delay: 1° The…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R251

I. - With the exception of articles R. 15-29 to R. 15-33-23, R. 15-33-43 and R. 15-33-59, R. 48-1, the I of article R. 49-8-3, articles R. 49-8-5 to R. 49-19, R. 53-51 to R. 53-56, R. 63, R. 64, R. 93…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter III: SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR BOOK III

Article R2643-1

For the application of the regulatory provisions of Book III in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon:1°° In article R. 2311-5 :a) 2° is deleted;b) In 5°, the words: "other technical standards drawn up by European…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Determination of performance times

Article R7422-4

The orders issued by the Prefect in accordance with article R. 7422-1 are published within one month of the date on which they were issued and inserted in the department's recueil des actes administra…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4412-59

The provisions of this section apply to activities in which workers are exposed or are likely to be exposed in the course of their work to carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic chemical agents. They d…

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