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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Ethics and prevention of conflicts of interest

Article R1313-29

A matter may be referred to the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee within its field of competence by a member of the Board of Directors, the Scientific Advisory Board or a specialised committee…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Complaints

Article R7111-29

Any decision by the Professional Journalists Identity Card Committee may be appealed by the person concerned to the Higher Committee referred to in article R. 7111-32.

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee inventions

Article R611-2

…to assess the classification of the invention in one of the categories provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article L. 611-7. This information concerns: 1° The purpose of the invention and the applic…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXI: Advertising measures

Article 243 bis

The reports presented and the proposed resolutions submitted to the general meetings of members or shareholders with a view to the appropriation of profits for each financial year must mention the amo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article D2573-24

…h of Article R. 2241-2 reads as follows: "This certificate must include the identity of the parties and the description of the property". The Code général de collectivités territoriales (General Code…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Collection of labile blood products.

Article R1222-22

…21 may take venous or capillary blood samples from the ear lobule, fingertips, elbow, back of the hand and malleolar region, with a view to medical biology examinations and on medical prescription. T…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Collection of labile blood products.

Article R1222-20

The medical responsibility for blood collection referred to in article L. 1221-3 and responsibility for the safety of donors are ensured by the medical officer in charge of blood collection at the blo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article L2333-2

…duct of the communal tax on final electricity consumption mentioned in the present article, as it stands on 31 December 2021, collected for the year 2022, increased by 1.5% or by 1% for the syndicates…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Loss of French nationality

Article 23

Any adult of French nationality, habitually resident abroad, who voluntarily acquires a foreign nationality shall not lose French nationality unless he/she expressly declares this, under the condition…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of acquisitive prescription.

Article 2270

One cannot prescribe against one's title, in the sense that one cannot change to oneself the cause and principle of one's possession.

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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