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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Risk assessment

Article R4423-4

The employer shall make the information used to assess the risks available to the Labour Inspectorate and to the agents of the prevention department of the social security bodies.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R4512-1

When, after the start of the work, an external company uses new subcontractors, the procedures laid down in this chapter are again applicable to them.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-323

Any midwife who holds a political or elective office or an administrative position may not use it for professional purposes to increase her clientele.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article A761-8

…rket news department makes available to the managers of markets of national interest, for their own use, the economic and statistical information available to them.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inspection bodies for ventilation and sanitation of workplaces.

Article R4724-2

…ministers for labour and agriculture specifies the accreditation conditions and measurement methods used to check compliance of ventilation and sanitation in workplaces.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Practice of the profession

Article R4312-54

Nurses must not use their professional position to try to obtain for themselves or for others an unjustified advantage or profit or to commit an act contrary to probity.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Materials in contact with water

Article R1321-48

…tion and packaging installations which come into contact with water intended for human consumption must comply with specific minimum requirements in terms of health safety defined by order of the Mini…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Essential health and safety requirements.

Article R5211-22

…ements relating to design and manufacture, medical devices, other than active implantable devices, must be designed, manufactured and packaged in such a way as to meet the following objectives: 1° To…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Cooperation and exchanges of information between authorities

Article L631-1

…ers shall cooperate with each other. They shall provide each other with any information that may be useful for the performance of their respective duties.The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Réso…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: The Chairman.

Article L5211-9-2

…331-1 of the public health code when a public inter-communal cooperation establishment with its own tax authority is competent in the area of sanitation, the mayors of the communes that are members of…

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