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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Pharmacies for internal use.

Article L5126-9

For the application of articles L. 5126-5, L. 5126-6 and L. 5126-7, army hospitals and the Institution nationale des invalides are considered to be health establishments.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Setting up the inter-company social and economic committee

Article L2313-9

When justified by the nature and importance of problems common to companies on the same site or in the same area, an inter-company collective agreement concluded between the employers of the companies…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Security period

Article 720-4

When the sentenced person shows serious signs of social rehabilitation, the sentence enforcement court may, exceptionally and under the conditions provided by Article 712-7, decide that the security p…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Fees for access to Nordic sites developed for non-motorised snow sports.

Article L422-9

The rules relating to the determination, by the deliberative assembly of a mixed syndicate with competence for the creation and management of a Nordic site dedicated to cross-country skiing and non-mo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Participative finance service providers

Article D547-4

For the purposes of Article L. 547-5, the provider of participative finance services shall include the overheads incurred by the activity mentioned in Article L. 547-4 in the calculation of the pruden…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 6: National registers

Article R623-40

The registration of plant variety certificates in the National Register of Plant Variety Certificates takes place in the order of their issue. The registration includes:the serial number under which t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks of national centres of reference

Article D1413-46

I.-The missions of the national centres of reference are :1° Expertise in the microbiology and pathology of infectious agents, the development, optimisation, validation and distribution of medical bio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-9

An employee benefiting from the rights provided for in Articles L. 3142-6 to L. 3142-8 may not engage in any other professional activity.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorised examinations and samples.

Article D232-47

Notification of the test shall be given to the athlete designated to be tested by the person in charge of the test or by the chaperone provided for inarticle R. 232-56 designated by that person. The n…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Administration.

Article R4113-44

Apart from the cases provided for byarticle 19 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies and by articles R. 4113-45, R. 4113-49 and R. 4113-79 imposing speci…

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