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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article D621-37-1-2

I.-The decision to suspend and, where applicable, to lay off a director with immediate effect referred to in article L. 1332-3 of the Labour Code, taken pursuant to article L. 631-13-8, shall be notif…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-310-3

Practitioners from other Member States of the European Union or the European Economic Area who have been granted partial access to the profession of midwife underarticle L. 4002-5 of the Public Health…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Remuneration policy and practices

Article L533-30-3

Staff performing control functions are independent of the business units they supervise, have the necessary authority and are remunerated on the basis of the achievement of objectives related to their…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Persons called upon to carry out seizures, rights and obligations of persons seizing and customs detention

Article 323-3

As soon as the person is detained by customs, the public prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the offence has been recorded in flagrante delicto is informed by any means. He is informed of the description…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5a: On the transmission and enforcement of freezing orders pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 on the mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation orders

Article 695-9-30-1

For the application of Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 on the mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation orders, the competent a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Derogation from the weekly working time in the event of combination with another part-time employment contract

Article D5132-10-5-3

The derogation, provided for in article L. 5132-5, from the minimum weekly working time for the holder of a fixed-term contract concluded in application of article L. 1242-3 is authorised by the Prefe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Information-consultation

Article R1233-3-3

Disputes relating to the expert appraisal provided for in article L. 1233-34 must be duly substantiated and sent to the regional director of companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Traffic

Article 307

With the exception of stills belonging to itinerant hirers, apparatus or parts of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or pressing of eaux-de-vie or spirits may only circulate anywhere…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-37-3

After a marketing authorisation has been granted, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may require the marketing authorisation holder to carr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal enjoyment

Article 386-3

The charges for this enjoyment are:1° Those to which usufructuaries are liable;2° The child's food, maintenance and education, according to his wealth;3° The debts encumbering the estate received by t…

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