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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Telehealth in the workplace

Article R4624-41-1

Visits and examinations carried out as part of the individual monitoring of the worker's state of health may be carried out remotely, by video transmission, in compliance with the conditions laid down…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary subsection: Prohibition on using the services of a person who has been the subject of an anti-doping sanction

Article R232-41-16

Federations shall inform the French Anti-Doping Agency, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by any means that guarantees the origin and receipt of this transmission of information,…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to performers and phonogram producers

Article R214-4

The committee and its specialist bodies meet when convened by the chairman and on the agenda he has set. Meetings are convened as of right when requested, on a specific agenda, either by the minister…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article R511-16-4

I. - With effect from financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2014, the persons referred to in II of Article L. 511-45 shall draw up a table grouping together the information relating to their…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Funeral home, mortuary and crematorium (R)

Article R2223-103-1

I.-When 1° of II of article L. 2223-18-1-1, the crematorium operator shall pay the proceeds from the sale of metals recovered after cremation to one or more communes, which may only allocate the corre…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Local referendum

Article R1112-16

It is punishable by a fine of 750 euros per contravention for a printer to print a poster with a propaganda purpose or character that includes a combination of three colours: blue, white and red.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Local referendum

Article R1112-17

Anyone who enters the polling station with a visible weapon will be liable to the fine laid down for fourth-class offences..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Local referendum

Article R1112-15

Any public or municipal official who distributes ballot papers or documents from elected representatives, political parties or political groupings entitled to take part in the campaign is liable to a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Revenue, imprest and imprest accounts of local authorities and their public establishments (R)

Article R1617-18

Regies may be set up outside national territory. These régies are subject to the rules defined in articles R. 1617-2 to R. 1617-17. However: a) The constitutive act may provide that these régies pay a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Right to support

Article R5131-4

The State, in consultation with the region, establishes strategic guidelines for the implementation of the right to support for young people at risk of exclusion from the labour market as referred to…

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