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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L1161-5

The purpose of learning programmes is to enable patients to acquire the technical skills needed to use a medicinal product.They are implemented by healthcare professionals acting on behalf of an opera…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection measures

Article L1151-2

The practice of acts, procedures, 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…

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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 I: General rules.

Article L1311-4

In the event of an emergency, in particular a specific imminent danger to public health, the representative of the State in the département may order the immediate implementation, with all rights rese…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General rules.

Article L1311-1

Without prejudice to the application of special legislation and the powers granted to local authorities, decrees by the Conseil d'Etat, issued after consultation with the Haut Conseil de la santé publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General rules.

Article L1311-3

In the event that several communes make known their desire to join forces, in accordance with the provisions of Title I of Book II of Part V of the General Local Authorities Code, for the implementati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-8

It is forbidden to supply water intended for human consumption via open canals, with the exception of those existing on 30 October 1935, which have been improved to ensure that the water supplied is c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2-2

By way of derogation from the provisions of Book I of the Code de l'expropriation pour cause d'utilité publique and Chapter III of Title II of Book I of the Code de l'environnement, when a minor modif…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-5

The health monitoring of water intended for human consumption, which is the responsibility of the State, includes water sampling and analysis carried out by the regional health agency or a laboratory…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2

In order to ensure the protection of water quality, the act declaring the works for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption to be in the public interest, as mentioned in article L. 215…

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