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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial provisions.

Article R6147-109

I. - The provisions of section 1 of chapter V of this title are applicable to the territorial public health establishment of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon with the exception of articles R. 6145-21 and R. 6…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The High Council of Statutory Auditors

Article R821-14-10

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AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French authorities of a European protection order

Article 696-101

…of the European protection order may be refused if the order is based: 1° On offences committed wholly, for the most part or for the most part on the territory of the Republic or in a place treated a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to neighbourhood noise

Article R1336-10

If the noise referred to in article R. 1336-5 originates from a public or private worksite, or works involving buildings and their equipment subject to a declaration or authorisation procedure, the di…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for intervention

Article R4451-102

Each worker involved in a radiological emergency situation assigned to the first group: 1° Receives information adapted to the radiological emergency situation that has arisen and to the conditions of…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Preventive measures and resources.

Article R4541-10

The consignor of any package or object weighing 1,000 kilograms or more gross weight and intended for carriage by sea or inland waterway shall clearly and durably mark the outside of the package with…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Nationality of natural persons

Article 1045-2

A challenge to the refusal to issue a certificate of French nationality is made by petition delivered or addressed to the clerk of the judicial court. The applicant is required to constitute a lawyer.…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R2322-10

Establishments subject to the provisions of this chapter must keep, under the responsibility of the medical director : 1° A regularly updated register of visits, in which doctors and midwives record t…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Banknotes and coins

Article R122-10

Credit institutions, La Poste, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and bureaux de change shall not issue to the public, at their counters or through their agents or the persons mention…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Monitoring workers' health after a radiological emergency

Article R4451-108

At the end of the radiological emergency, the occupational health physician shall prescribe all the examinations he considers relevant to assess the state of health of the workers involved in the radi…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
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