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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Funeral homes (R).

Article D2223-87

…general criteria relating to the operation of the different types of bodies carrying out inspections. The body carrying out the inspection must not have any links of interest that could affect its im…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Funeral homes (R).

Article D2223-83

The technical area comprises at least as many refrigerated compartments as there are display rooms. Each refrigerated compartment enables a temperature of between 0° and 5° C to be maintained at all t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Funeral homes (R).

Article R2223-88

…deceased person has been admitted to a funeral home under the conditions provided for in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Article R. 2223-76 and l'article R. 2223-77 and that this burial chamber inc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Funeral homes (R).

Article D2223-81

…uring mechanism. The fixed partitions of the display rooms provide acoustic insulation of at least 38 decibels (A) with regard to internal airborne noise and 30 decibels (A) with regard to external ai…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article R3122-8

Where, in exceptional cases, it is not possible to take the rest provided for in article R. 3122-3 for objective reasons, an equivalent compensatory payment ensuring appropriate protection for the emp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Police custody

Article 706-88

For the application of articles 63,77 and 154, if the requirements of the investigation or inquiry relating to one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-73 requires it, a person's po…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-8

…of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the evidence of formal qualifications of the Member S…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article R612-8

…sing, the applicant shall be invited to complete the patent application within a period of two months. If the applicant complies with this invitation, the filing date is that on which the application…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VII: Trial of offences

Article 844-1

…the judicial protection of children shall exercise the functions devolved to the prison integration and probation service.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Judging of contraventions

Article 850-1

…corded in official reports drawn up concurrently by sworn officials of New Caledonia, the provinces and communes and public service delegatees. These officials are commissioned by the competent admini…

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