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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Importation of packaged natural mineral waters

Article R1322-44-21

…ger to public health or no longer meets the regulatory quality requirements, suspend, by a reasoned decision, its marketing for a maximum period of four months. It informs the Minister for Health of t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R613-3-2

…n receives an application for authorisation pursuant to I of Article L. 613-20-4, it shall give its decision no later than six months from receipt of the complete application. The Autorité de contrôle…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Management by the social and economic committee

Article R2312-42

…or social security bodies established in the company, housing and allotment garden activities, when decisions are subject to control or approval by the administration, the opinion of the Social and Ec…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Constitution and organisation of the medical reserve

Article D3132-4

…f forty-five days per calendar year; this duration may exceptionally be increased to ninety days by decision of the Director General of the National Public Health Agency and to one hundred and eighty…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Termination of business.

Article R4731-10

…the formal notice procedure provided for in articles R. 4721-6 et seq. is the subject of a reasoned decision including the factual and legal elements characterising the persistence of the dangerous si…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Work stoppage.

Article R4731-2

When the employer or his representative is present, the decision shall be handed to him directly against receipt. Failing this, it shall be sent to the employer as a matter of urgency by any appropria…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R6123-7

…te in connection with their temporary travel.II. - When the Board of Directors is deliberating on a decision in which one of its members has, directly or indirectly, any interest whatsoever, the membe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 459

Except in the cases provided for in Article 458, the protected person alone takes decisions relating to their person insofar as their condition allows.Where the condition of the protected person does…

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French Customs CodeIn force
A. - Limitation period against debtors.

Article 352

…istrative authority decides on these requests within four months of receipt. The action against the decision of the administration, taken following this claim, must be brought before the court designa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Seizures without dispossession

Article 706-158

…tion, the liberty and custody judge, at the request of the public prosecutor, may order by reasoned decision the seizure, at the advanced expense of the Treasury, of property for which confiscation is…

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