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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medical surveillance of specific categories of workers.

Article L4625-1

A decree determines the rules relating to the organisation, choice and financing of the occupational health and prevention service and the procedures for monitoring the state of health of workers appl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Employment centres.

Article L5313-1

The maisons de l'emploi, whose remit, adapted to the configuration of the employment areas, may not exceed the region or, in Corsica, the local authority, contribute to the coordination of public poli…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives.

Article L5312-1

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may impose special conditions on, restrict or suspend the testing, manufacture, preparation, import, use, export, wholesale dist…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VII: Exceptional provisions specific to the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin départements.

Article L670-1-1

This Title also applies to natural persons domiciled in the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin départements who have set up an appropriated asset in accordance with article L. 526-7 and whose agricultura…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry

Article L712-11-1

Without prejudice to specific legislative provisions, when a private-law or public-law person takes over all or part of the activity of a chamber of commerce and industry, whatever the legal classific…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L4211-1-1

Persons engaged in the activity of brokering medicinal products as referred to in article L. 5124-19 are not subject to the provisions of this Title.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Provisions specific to certain local public services

Article L1852-1

Fire and rescue centres under the authority of communes or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with a communal or inter-communal fire brigade are classified as fire and rescue service…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IX: Special provisions applicable to motor vehicle accidents occurring abroad.

Article L421-14

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall lay down the conditions for the application of this section, in particular the procedures for establishing that the conditions for the intervention of the guarante…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Debt ceiling

Article L315-15

The debt owed by the borrower or his successors may never exceed the value of the property assessed at the time the term expires. When the mortgagee calls in his guarantee at the end of the term, if t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable by court order

Article L237-17

In the absence of statutory auditors, and even in companies which are not required to appoint statutory auditors, one or more auditors may be appointed by the shareholders under the conditions set out…

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