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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conduct of inspection operations

Article R6362-8

…ort on the activities of the inspection services to the Regional Committee for Employment, Training and Vocational Guidance.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Sampling.

Article R5127-8

The owner or holder of the product or, where applicable, the representative of the transport company may include in the report or minutes any statements that he or she considers relevant. The owner or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5141-89

…is to monitor the effects of veterinary medicinal products, mainly their adverse effects on animals and humans, and the scientific evaluation of information collected for this purpose. It also aims to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial penalties

Article R5145-8

The penalty decision may, where appropriate, be accompanied by a daily penalty payment. This penalty payment is notified in accordance with the same procedural rules as the main sanction. The amount o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single chapter: Provisions relating to the publication of criminal decisions

Article R8211-8

The responsible authority shall keep the decisions transmitted by the court registries for a period of five years before destroying them.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Deconcentrated services

Article R8122-8

In each region, a regional support and monitoring unit, attached to the "labour policy" section of the regional directorate for companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment, is responsib…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-16

…aging the file shall send the Ministry of the Interior the notice provided for in articles 706-53-8 and R. 53-8-26. Failing submission within the time limits defined in Article R. 53-8-15, the departm…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 57

Any customs officer who is dismissed from his post or who leaves it shall immediately hand over to his administration his commission of employment, the registers, seals, arms and items of equipment wi…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to customs offices and brigades.

Article 51

1. Gates, offices, posts or fences intended for the guarding and surveillance of the frontiers may be established on the land that is necessary on condition that the State pays the value of this land…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 56

1. Customs officers are entitled to bear arms in the performance of their duties. 2. They may use their weapons under the conditions set out in Article L. 435-1 of the Internal Security Code.

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