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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Personal protection

Article R4434-7

If it is impossible to avoid the risks due to exposure to noise by other means, appropriate and properly fitted individual hearing protectors are made available to workers under the following conditio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Preventive measures and resources

Article R4412-72

For all activities where there is a risk of contamination by carcinogens, mutagens or agents toxic to reproduction, the employer shall take the following appropriate measures: 1° Ensure that workers d…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exceptional aid to offset fixed costs

Article 919-79

Exceptional aid is granted in the form of a direct allocation to help offset the fixed costs incurred by operators of cinemas who :1° Are eligible for financial aid for the creation and modernisation…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R712-7

Any filing that does not include the information provided for in Article R. 712-3 (1° a, b and c) and which is not accompanied by proof of payment of the filing fee. However, this inadmissibility can…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-2

The sentences and decisions that may give rise to cross-border enforcement under this Title are as follows: 1° Convictions to probation measures providing for imprisonment in the event of non-complian…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the recognition and monitoring in France of convictions and probation decisions handed down by the competent authorities of other Member States of the European Union

Article 764-25

Enforcement of the sentencing decision may be refused in the following cases: 1° The duration of the alternative penalty or probation measure is less than six months at the date of receipt of the cert…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Classification.

Article D311-7

…ths preceding transmission of the application for classification to the body referred to in Article L. 141-2; b) The inspection grid completed by the assessing body. The assessment body has fifteen da…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Electronic trade in medicinal products by a dispensing pharmacy

Article R5125-70

The pharmacy's e-commerce website is created or operated by the pharmacists referred to in article L. 5125-33 registered in sections A, D and E of the Ordre national des pharmaciens. The website conta…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Conversion to attachment for payment

Article R523-7

A creditor who obtains a writ of execution recording the existence of his claim shall serve on the garnishee a conversion deed which contains, under penalty of nullity : 1° A reference to the writ of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Obligations of members and the company.

Article R322-75

In the event of force majeure resulting from adverse weather conditions or epizootic diseases of an exceptional nature, a decree issued on the report of the Minister for the Economy and Finance and th…

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