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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions for storing documents.

Article R1131-20

The written consent and the duplicates of the prescription for the examination of genetic characteristics and the commented and signed medical biology analysis reports are kept by the prescribing doct…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Lighting

Article R4324-23

Work, adjustment or maintenance areas on work equipment are adequately lit for the work to be carried out.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Filing formalities

Article R512-2

The application may be filed personally by the applicant or by an agent whose domicile, registered office or place of business is in a Member State of the European Union or in a State party to the Agr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Distribution of the proceeds of road traffic fines

Article L2334-25-1

Net revenue losses resulting from I to V of Article 63 of Law No. 2014-58 of 27 January 2014 on the modernisation of territorial public action and the affirmation of metropolises are compensated for t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-25

When the guarantee fund requests, pursuant to Article 706-10, total or partial reimbursement of the compensation it has paid, it shall submit a simple request to the commission, which shall give its d…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Proceedings for judgment

Article 1564-2

Subject to the provisions of Article 2067 of the Civil Code, where the preparation of the case has enabled a full agreement to be reached on the substance of the dispute, the application for homologat…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Award of sub-contracts where the estimated value of the requirement is equal to or greater than the thresholds for the formal procedure

Article R2393-20

By way of derogation from article R. 2393-18, the holder is not required to publish a notice when the sub-contract fulfils the conditions for use of the award procedure without prior advertising or co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Validation and controls carried out by the departmental or multidepartmental mutual benefit funds for agriculture (caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité sociale agricole)

Article R123-287

For the purposes of verifying the status of agricultural worker as defined by article L. 311-2 du code rural et de la pêche maritime, the caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Validation and controls carried out by the departmental or multidepartmental mutual benefit funds for agriculture (caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité sociale agricole)

Article R123-285

The caisse départementale ou pluridépartementale de mutualité sociale agricole will validate the information and documents provided and carry out the checks referred to in article R. 123-284, within f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Implementation of the guarantee

Article R1251-21

As soon as it is established that the temporary employment contractor is in default, the holder of one of the claims defined in article L. 1251-49 may send the guarantor a request for payment by regis…

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