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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Collection, preparation and storage of blood, blood components and labile blood products.

Article L1221-2

Human blood or its components may only be collected for therapeutic use by the Etablissement Français du Sang mentioned in Chapter II of this Title and by the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre, ap…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Criminal provisions

Article L1142-27

…person who is not registered on the list of medical accident experts provided for in articles L. 1142-10 and L. 1142-11 of the name mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of article L. 1142-11, or of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection measures

Article L1151-2

…techniques and methods relating to the groups of products mentioned in Annex XVI of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 concerning medical devices, a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General rules.

Article L1311-2

The decrees mentioned in article L. 1311-1 may be supplemented by orders issued by the representative of the State in the département or by orders issued by the mayor in order to lay down special prov…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Criminal provisions.

Article L1312-2

Obstructing the performance of the duties of the agents mentioned in articles L. 1421-1 and L. 1435-7 or the local authority agents mentioned in article L. 1312-1 is punishable by six months' imprison…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Removal from a living person.

Article L1231-2

No organs may be removed for donation from a living minor or from a living adult who is the subject of a legal protection measure with representation of the person.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Removal from a deceased person.

Article L1232-2

…was a minor, the sample may only be taken for one or more of the purposes mentioned in article L. 1232-1 if each of the persons exercising parental authority consents in writing.However, if one of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety

Article L1313-2

The Agency shall have access, at its request and under conditions which preserve the confidentiality of the data with regard to third parties, to the information necessary for the performance of its d…

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Chapter III: Preparation, preservation and use of tissues, cells and their derivatives.

Article L1243-2

…onale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, in accordance with Article 6 of Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards of qu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Organ transplants.

Article L1234-2

…ted to establishments which are authorised to carry out organ removal in application of article L. 1233-1, and which also carry out medical teaching and medical research activities in accordance with…

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