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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Expertise

Article L512-40

When the authorised agents establish an offence by means of a report based on tests or analyses, they will forward the State laboratory report to the alleged offender and inform him that he has a peri…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Expertise

Article L512-44

At the request of the public prosecutor or the court, the sample(s) taken and held by the administrative department shall be handed over to the experts.In the event that special preservation measures…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Quasi-machines

Article R4313-11

The assembly instructions and the declaration of incorporation accompany the partly completed machine until it is incorporated into the final machine, and form part of the technical file for that mach…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation procedure.

Article R2324-11

On receipt of the information referred to in article R. 2324-10, the prefect of the department in which the holiday or leisure centre is located shall refer the matter to the president of the departme…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Appointment.

Article R4623-11

In autonomous occupational health and prevention services employing several occupational physicians, each of them is assigned to a specific sector, defined by the employer and whose number of employee…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D47-11-3

When a person charged with the offence of failing to represent a child under the article 227-5 of the Criminal Code maintains that the acts of which he or she is accused were justified by violence or…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L1333-4

In application of the principle of justification, certain nuclear activities as well as certain processes, devices or substances exposing persons to ionising radiation may be regulated or prohibited b…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the insurance obligation.

Article L211-4

The insurance provided for in article L. 211-1 must include cover for civil liability extending to all the territories of the Member States of the European Community as well as to the territories of a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-4

The patent application may relate to only one invention or to a plurality of inventions linked together in such a way that they form a single general inventive concept. Any application which does not…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L2223-4

…yor assigns in perpetuity, in the cemetery, a fitted ossuary where the exhumed remains are immediately reburied. The mayor may also arrange for the cremation of the exhumed remains in the absence of a…

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