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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Labour inspection in mines and quarries

Article R8111-8

In mines and quarries with underground installations accessible to workers, as well as in their outbuildings, labour inspection missions are carried out by civil servants authorised for this purpose b…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R6223-86

I.-If the société de participations financières de profession libérale de biologistes médicaux falls under the Order of Pharmacists or the Order of Physicians and ceases to comply with the legislative…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R6223-88

Failure by the medical biologists who are members of such a company to comply with the provisions governing the formation and operation of private limited companies of medical biologists may give rise…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Withholding

Article R335-8

Where the written application is submitted after the applicant has been informed that the goods have been detained, the Minister responsible for customs shall accept or reject it within two working da…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: National cosmetovigilance system

Article R5131-8

The national cosmetovigilance system comprises : 1° The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products ; 2° The Directorate-General for Consumer Affairs, Competition and Fraud Control…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 5: Fresnes centre

Article R53-8-75

The provisions of this section are applicable to the socio-medico-judicial security centre of the Fresnes national public health establishment, subject to the adaptations provided for in Article R. 53…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Suspension of performance of the employment contract

Article R6225-9

In application of article L. 6225-4, the Labour Inspectorate supervisory officer proposes that the performance of the apprenticeship contract be suspended, after carrying out, where circumstances allo…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General conditions relating to voluntary termination of pregnancy outside health establishments

Article R2212-9

The agreement provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 2212-2 shall comply with the standard agreement constituting one of the following annexes: 1° Annex 22-1 for the practice of voluntary…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Board of Directors (R)

Article R2221-65

In communes or groups of communes with fewer than 3,500 inhabitants, the operating board may be the municipal council. In this case, the operating board may be chaired by the mayor or by one of its me…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Board of Directors (R)

Article R2221-66

When the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article L. 2221-13 the committee of the syndicat de communes is enlarged to include outside persons to exercise the powers of the operating board, with t…

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