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Showing 31313140 of 66561 articles for Art. 1228 · Cass. com. 1 February 1978 · Cass. com. 10 February 1958 · Cass. com. 3 October 1977 · Cass. ch. req. 7 May 1923 · Cass. 1re civ. 24 May 1966

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

Article R4127-107

Before undertaking any expert examination, the medical expert must inform the person he is to examine of his mission and the legal framework in which his opinion is sought.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

Article R4127-105

No one may be both expert doctor and treating doctor for the same patient. A doctor must not accept a mission of expertise in which his own interests are at stake, or those of one of his patients, one…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

Article R4127-108

…provide an answer to the questions asked. Outside these limits, he must not reveal anything that he may have learnt in the course of this expertise. He must certify that he has carried out his mission…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Practice of control medicine.

Article R4127-100

A doctor practising as a control doctor may not at the same time be a prevention doctor or, except in an emergency, a doctor treating the same person. This prohibition extends to members of the patien…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Practice of control medicine.

Article R4127-101

When entrusted with his mission, the examining doctor must recuse himself if he considers that the questions put to him are unrelated to the actual medical technique, his knowledge or his abilities, o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Powers of the President of the Territorial Council

Article LO6352-10

…e Territorial Council brings actions and defends before the courts in the name of the community. He may, without prior authorisation of the Executive Council, perform any conservatory acts or acts int…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2411-10

…lti-annual farming or grazing agreement concluded under the conditions provided for in article L. 481-1 of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime (Rural and Maritime Fishing Code) or by agreement to m…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
17°: Occupation of public property

Article 1048 ter

The tax mentioned in article 680 :1° Deeds granting authorisation for temporary occupation of the public domain constituting a right in rem in immovable property issued either by the State or one of i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative schemes

Article L1333-10

…a legally practised nuclear activity becomes subject to one of the regimes mentioned in Article L. 1333-8 as a result of a change in the conditions of application of that article and without the acti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Work involving exposure to dangerous chemical agents

Article D4152-10

…ant women and breastfeeding mothers in workstations exposing them to the following chemical agents: 1° Chemical agents that meet the criteria for classification as toxic for reproduction category 1A,…

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