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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2-1

…upplied with water intended for human consumption by abstraction works owned by private individuals and not covered by a public service delegation, the State representative in the department may, at t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-112-2

I. - 1° The farm health report establishes the reference health status of the farm based on qualitative and quantitative criteria. It includes a list of diseases to which the farm has already been exp…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Procedure for validating or approving the employment safeguard plan

Article D1233-14-2

The decision of the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment referred to in article L. 1233-57-4 is sent by any means that confers a date certain to the employer…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Judgement

Article R1454-19-2

In accordance with the second paragraph of article 446-1 of the Code of Civil Procedure , the Judgement Bureau may exempt a party who so requests from attending a subsequent hearing. In this case, the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Conditions of practice

Article R743-139-21

Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale set up, pursuant to article 31-1 of law n° 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal profes…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R441-2-1

…n the value of the annuity unit, this reduction may only occur where the ratio between, on the one hand, the sum of the special technical provision and the net unrealised gains and losses on the asset…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-11-2

Services other than the certification of accounts that are not mentioned in II of Article L. 822-11 and in I of article L. 822-11-1 may be provided by the statutory auditor or the members of the netwo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L450-2-1

The documents drawn up by the agents referred to in Article L. 450-1 may be drawn up or converted into digital format and may be stored in their entirety in this form, in secure conditions, without th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medically assisted procreation.

Article L2442-1-2

For its application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, the last paragraph of Article L. 2141-6 reads as follows: "Only not-for-profit organisations may be authorised to store embryos intended for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter XI: Collection of human faeces for therapeutic use

Article L513-11-2

The collection, control, storage, traceability and transport of faeces carried out by the establishments or organisations mentioned inArticle L. 513-11-1, including in the context of research involvin…

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