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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quality control

Article D6221-23

…sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) determines an annual programme of controls carried out by the Agency, in the li…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quality control

Article D6221-20

…II.-Each external quality assessment body for medical biology examinations mentioned in Article L. 6221-9 carries out an inter-laboratory comparison of the results obtained and a comparison of results…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quality control

Article D6221-21

I.-The external quality assessment bodies referred to in article L. 6221-9 must meet the following criteria: 1° Competence, in terms of qualifications and experience, to organise quality control campa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the administration and prescription of vaccines

Article R6212-2

I.-The medical biologists mentioned in article L. 6213-1, the doctors and pharmacists authorised to carry out the duties of medical biologist under articles L. 6213-2 and L. 6213-2-1 and the nurses wo…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: First demand guarantee and personal and joint surety

Article R2391-25

The provisions of articles R. 2191-36 to R. 2191-42 apply.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Representation at national and multi-industry level

Article L2152-2

The following professional employers' organisations are representative at national and multi-sector level:1° Which meet the criteria mentioned in 1° to 5° of article L. 2151-1 ; 2° Which are represent…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-20-1-B

…iel et de résolution or the Autorité des marchés financiers finds that an ISP with a branch in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Reunion, Mayotte or Saint-Martin is not complying…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-20-1-A

…e Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or the Autorité des marchés financiers has clear and demonstrable grounds for believing that an investment service provider operating under the freed…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Authorisations

Article L511-22

I-The following are authorised to investigate and record, in the performance of their duties, infringements of the provisions of Book IV and the infringements and breaches referred to in Articles L. 5…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Authorisations

Article L511-21

…nomic protection of consumers are empowered by order of the Minister for the Economy to investigate and record infringements and breaches of the provisions mentioned in sub-section 2 of section 1 of c…

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