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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning companies not subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-53

…in force; 2° The obligations relating to the elaboration of social measures provided for by article L. 1233-32 or by collective labour agreements have been respected; 3° The measures provided for in a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Penalties for irregularities.

Article L1235-14

…ally employs less than eleven employees:1° The nullity of the dismissal, as provided for in Article L. 1235-11 ; 2° (deleted) ;3° Failure to respect the priority of re-employment, as provided for in A…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Revitalisation of employment areas.

Article L1233-88

The actions provided for in articles L. 1233-84 and L. 1233-87 are determined after consultation with the local authorities concerned, the consular bodies and the social partners who are members of th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prohibitions.

Article L1242-6

Apart from the cases provided for in Article L. 1242-5, it is prohibited to enter into a fixed-term employment contract:1° To replace an employee whose employment contract has been suspended as a resu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Procedures for implementing genetic characteristic tests and identifications by genetic fingerprinting and informing next of kin

Article L1131-3

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Article L. 1131-2-1, only practitioners approved for this purpose by the Biomedicine Agency referred to in Article L. 1418-1 under conditions laid do…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Blood.

Article L1271-5

…er the characteristics of a person's blood prior to sampling in breach of the provisions of article L. 1221-6 is punishable by a fine of 45,000 euros. In the event of a repeat offence, a six-month pri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Combating the presence of lead

Article L1334-2

…of a case of lead poisoning, or the diagnosis prescribed pursuant to the last paragraph of article L. 1334-1, or the risk of exposure to lead report mentioned in article L. 1334-5, and that this exis…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Air and waste.

Article L1335-3

…L. 511-2 of the Environment Code is required to make facilities available to the public th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1522-6

For the application of article L. 1221-8-1 to Wallis and Futuna, the words: "persons under psychiatric care pursuant to Chapters II to IV of Title I of Book II of Part Three of this Code or article 70…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Insurance against natural disasters.

Article L125-5

…to air, sea, lake and river vehicles, marine renewable energy installations, as defined in article L. 111-6, as well as transported goods and the damage referred to in article L. 242-1.Insurance cont…

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