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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Formal notices from the Regional Director for Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment.

Article R4721-1

…Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment, as provided for in 2° of Article L. 4721-1, may be served on the employer when the dangerous situation giving rise to an occupational risk…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Compensation for victims

Article L1142-17-1

…ses the victim to suffer permanent physical or mental harm in excess of the percentage mentioned in 1° of article L. 1142-1-1 or death, the Office will make an offer of compensation to the victim or h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4311-5-1

I.-The nurse may prescribe, under the conditions defined in article R. 4311-3, the vaccines mentioned in the order provided for by 1° of article L. 4311-1 to persons whose age conditions and, where ap…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-1

I. - A. - The penalties provided for in A of I of Article L. 465-1 shall apply to any person who carries out a transaction, places an order or behaves in such a way as to give, or be likely to give, m…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Foreign nationals with EU long-term resident status in another Member State of the European Union

Article L426-11

…ional holding an EU long-term resident card, as defined by the provisions of Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term reside…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to all financing bodies

Article L214-168

…on the one hand, to be exposed to the risks, including insurance risks, referred to in article L. 214-175-1 and, on the other hand, to finance or hedge them in full, under the conditions provided for…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for using an adapted procedure

Article R2323-1

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article R. 2322-14, the purchaser may use an adapted procedure to award: 1° A defence or security contract for which the estimated value of the requirement, excl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Police powers relating to specific objects.

Article D2573-16-1

I. - Articles R. 2213-2-2 to R. 2213-57 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II to XXV. II. - For the application of article R. 2213-2-2 : 1° The words: "provi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: External action by local and regional authorities

Article L1822-1

I. - Articles L. 1115-1 and L. 1115-5 to L. 1115-7 shall apply to the communes of French Polynesia and their groupings subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the application of the se…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks and powers of the regional health agencies

Article L1431-1

…gional and sub-regional level :- the objectives of the national health policy defined in article L. 1411-1 of this Code ;- the principles of social and medico-social action set out in articles L. 116-…

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