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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work equipment that is new or considered new

Article R4312-1-1

…167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 February 2013 on type-approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles, under the conditions defined in Article 2.3 o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Offences committed by the employer or his representative.

Article R4741-1-1

Failure to complete or update the exposure monitoring sheet for a worker referred to in 2° of V of Article L. 4161-1, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article D. 4161-1-1, is punishable…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions required to practise as an orthopaedic technician

Article D4364-10-1

…sions of articles D. 4364-7 to D. 4364-10, the following may practise the professions of orthoprosthetist, chiropodist, ocularist, epithesist or orthopaedic orthotist:1° Practising professionals who,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Amendments to the Articles of Association

Article L5211-19

…public establishment for intercommunal cooperation, except in the case of an urban community or a metropolis, under the conditions laid down in article L. 5211-25-1, with the consent of the deliberat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Essential quality and safety requirements for cooperation protocols

Article R4011-1

The essential safety and quality requirements, referred to in Article L. 4011-2, with which the protocols provided for in Article L. 4011-1 must comply are as follows 4011-1 are as follows: 1° Comply…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 8: Nature of the tests leading to the award of the first and second level state diploma for sports instructors and reserved for candidates who are or have been high-level sportsmen and sportswomen.

Article A212-157

The jury, in accordance with article A. 212-144, draws up the list of those admitted to the brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif du premier degré et du deuxième degré, in the light of the results obtaine…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK II: INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION

Article L5210-1-1

I. - In each department, based on an assessment of the coherence of the perimeters and an inventory of the distribution of the competences of the existing groupings and their exercise, a departmental…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Administrative, accounting and financial management of the personal training account

Article R6333-12-1

…presented in court both as plaintiff and defendant by the Director General of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations for all acts relating to the management of the fund mentioned in the first paragrap…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Annexes Part A Book VIII

Article Annexe 8-1-1

…sment in safeguard or receivership proceedings ; - preparation of an employment safeguard plan; - meeting of staff representative institutions; - notification of redundancies; - mission to monitor imp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R50-12-1

The offer of compensation made to the victim pursuant to Article 706-5-1 sets out the assessment made by the guarantee fund for each head of loss and the amount of compensation due to the victim, taki…

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