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Showing 841850 of 61711 articles for Art. R 330-2 · Cass. com. 7 July 2004 · CA Paris 5 November 2008

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work platforms.

Article R4534-79

Work platform guardrails are securely fixed to the inside of the uprights.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work platforms.

Article R4534-76

Work platforms are established on solid parts of the building. Platforms used to carry out work inside buildings are supported on crossbeams resting on joists. They may not be supported on infill slab…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work platforms.

Article R4534-78

Work platforms are fitted on the outside with: 1° Guardrails consisting of two rails, one one metre and the other 45 centimetres above the floor; 2° Skirting boards at least 15 centimetres high. Howev…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work platforms.

Article R4534-75

Work platforms, walkways and stairways must be: 1° Constructed in such a way that none of their parts can be subjected to excessive or uneven bending; 2° Constructed and maintained in such a way as to…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligation of the holder to subcontract

Article R2393-7

When the purchaser decides to require the contractor to subcontract part of his contract pursuant to 2° of article L. 2393-3, he shall indicate this in the contract notice in the form of percentages s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-5

Where manufacturers and importers of investigational medicinal products entrust certain quality control operations to a laboratory in accordance with Article R. 5124-47 (2°), the biomedical research s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-5-2

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation shall have a right of co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-5-2

The professional practice standard relating to the communication of internal control weaknesses, approved by the Minister of Justice, is shown below: COMMUNICATION OF INTERNAL CONTROL WEAKNESSES Intro…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 5: Electronic catalogues

Article R2162-56

The purchaser may award specific contracts under a dynamic purchasing system by requiring that tenders be submitted in the form of an electronic catalogue. It may also award specific contracts in acco…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 5: Electronic catalogues

Article R2162-53

The purchaser shall indicate in the contract notice, in the invitation to confirm interest or in the invitation to tender whether it authorises or requires the submission of tenders in the form of an…

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