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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Occupational health medical file

Article R4624-45-8

…s death any person authorised by Articles L. 1110-4 and L. 1111-7 of the Public Health Code, may request communication of his occupational health medical file in paper or dematerialised form. The work…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations.

Article R513-7

…ined in Articles 10,11 and 12 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 of 10 October 2014, which are valued in accordance with this regulation and which are issued neither by the société de crédit foncier…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Invalidity of the trade mark

Article L716-2-3

…more than five years at the date of the application for a declaration of invalidity who, at the request of the proprietor of the later trade mark, does not prove: That a) That the earlier trade mark…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Specific measures

Article L412-9

I.- Without prejudice to Article L. 412-1, in establishments offering meals for consumption on the premises or in establishments offering meals for consumption on the premises and for takeaway or deli…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-16

…sidiary institutions by the financial holding company or the mixed financial holding company; 2° Issue instructions to the financial holding company or mixed financial holding company with a view to t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-18-2

…tify and address any weaknesses. In particular, they shall regularly check whether the execution venues provided for in their order execution policy make it possible to obtain the best possible result…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation of certain transactions in financial instruments

Article L621-8

…e summary document referred to in IV of Article L. 412-1, which is likely to have a significant influence on the valuation of the financial instruments and occurs or is noted between the start of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-2-1

The Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may suspend the testing, manufacture, preparation, import, use, export, wholesale distribution, packaging…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Extemporaneous preparation and retail sale.

Article L5442-12

I.-A fine of €37,500 is imposed on the companies mentioned in Article L. 5142-1 for offering or providing benefits, in kind or in cash, to the professionals mentioned in Article L. 5143-2, the groups…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Commencement and conduct of secondary insolvency proceedings

Article R692-2

…ory of another Member State and the debtor who has not been divested by registered letter with a request for acknowledgement of receipt. receipt, which shall mention the time limit and the procedures…

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