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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: General conditions of performance.

Article 508

No execution may be carried out before 6 a.m. or after 9 p.m., nor on public holidays or non-working days, except by permission of the judge in case of necessity.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-9-1

If there is no suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing, the persons who issue electronic money referred to in 1°, 1° ter and 1° quater of Article L. 561-2 are not subject to the due dilig…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L4211-9-1

…ganisations, including health establishments, authorised by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Produ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention services.

Article L4622-9-2

…ommittee. This injunction may include reorganisation measures and, where appropriate, individual precautionary measures, in application of this Code or collective agreements in force. II - If the shor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Procedures and internal control

Article R561-38-9

The procedures for applying this section with regard to the nature and scope of internal procedures, the rules for organising internal control and the content of the reports on internal control provid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments

Article R4211-59

…the authorisation holder; 2° Appointment of a new responsible person; 3° Cessation of a pharmaceutical activity or operation in the establishment. II - Within one month of their implementation, chang…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments

Article R4211-58

…are subject to authorisation by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé: 1° A new activity, among those mentioned in article L. 4211-9-2 ; 2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article R3551-6-9

…y include programme authorisations and payment appropriations. Programme authorisations relating to capital expenditure correspond to expenditure of a multi-annual nature relating to a specific fixed…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-44

…to in Article 695-9-31 to the competent service of a Member State and the latter intends to communicate it to another State or to use it for a purpose other than that for which it was transmitted, th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-38

…1 could be useful to another Member State either in preventing an offence falling within one of the categories listed in Article 694-32 and punishable in France by a custodial sentence of at least thr…

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