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Showing 24112420 of 28454 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 28-6-1989 n° 150

French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Prevention of business difficulties.

Article R612-6

The report referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 612-5 contains: 1° A list of the agreements subject to approval by the decision-making body or attached to the documents sent to members in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article D3121-6

In an emergency, the employer may exceed the maximum daily working time on his own responsibility, in the cases envisaged in article D. 3121-4. If the employer has not yet submitted a request to excee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Work carried out using work equipment

Article R4323-62

When temporary work at a height cannot be performed from the work surface as referred to in Article R. 4323-58, appropriate work equipment is chosen to ensure and maintain safe working conditions. Pri…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Individual dosimetric monitoring

Article R4451-65

I.-Individual dosimetric monitoring in relation to external exposure or exposure to radon is carried out using appropriate delayed-reading dosimeters. Where external exposure is due to cosmic radiatio…

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

Article R4211-61

In the event of non-compliance with the legislative and regulatory provisions or the conditions of the authorisation, the suspension, which may not exceed one year, and the withdrawal of the authorisa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-6

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years at the time of the incident, and that uses its articles of association to combat discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-6

Home detention with electronic monitoring is decided by reasoned order of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge, who rules after an adversarial hearing in accordance with Article 14…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Special conditions of secondment

Article L1262-6

Without prejudice to article L. 1262-3 and section 2 of this chapter, employers seconding one or more employees under the conditions set out in 1° and 2° of article L. 1262-1 for short-term services a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-6

Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, persons undergoing psychiatric care pursuant to Articles L. 3212-1 and L. 3213-1 who are not covered by the provisions of Ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-6

I.- Before carrying out research involving the human person, the sponsor submits the project for the opinion of a personal data protection committee designated at random from among the available commi…

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