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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Discipline.

Article L1442-12

Any industrial tribunal member who, without legitimate reason and after formal notice, refuses to perform the service to which he is called may be declared to have resigned.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Conciliation and referral office, judgment office and summary proceedings panel.

Article L1423-12

The tribunal is made up of two employer and two employee councillors, including the chairman or vice-chairman who sit alternately.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Implementing provisions

Article L2122-12

A decree shall determine the procedures for collecting and consolidating the results of professional elections for the application of this chapter.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-12

Clinical investigations may only be carried out in a place that has the human, material and technical resources appropriate to the clinical investigation and compatible with the safety requirements of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-12

…a deceased person in a state of brain death without his or her consent expressed during his or her lifetime or through the testimony of his or her family. However, where the deceased person is a mino…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions

Article L1128-12

Failure to comply with Articles 37, 42, 43 and 93 of European Parliament Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products regarding the communication of informatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-12

The Etablissement Français du Sang, the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre, for the activities of collection, biological qualification of the donation, preparation, distribution, delivery of labile…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Enforcement of the judgment and individual compensation for damages

Article L1143-12

With the judge's authorisation, the association may call upon any person belonging to a regulated legal profession, the list of which shall be determined by decree of the Conseil d'Etat, to assist it.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L121-12

…to the rights and actions of the insured against third parties who, by their act, have caused the loss giving rise to the insurer's liability.The insurer may be discharged, in whole or in part, from…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-12

The capital sum or annuity stipulated as payable on the death of the insured to a specific beneficiary or to his heirs does not form part of the insured's estate. The beneficiary, whatever the form an…

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