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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Emergency medical facilities

Article D6124-1

…ional experience equivalent to at least three years in an emergency medicine department or facility may also work in an emergency medicine facility. Other doctors may also carry out their duties withi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial provisions and control of foundations

Article R6141-62

…annual resources are made up of: 1° Income from the endowment; 2° The portion of the endowment that may be used up, as determined by the articles of association, up to an annual limit of 20% of the en…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Termination of service.

Article R6152-97

Hospital practitioners may submit their resignation to the director general of the Centre national de gestion, giving three months' notice. Within thirty days of receiving the practitioner's request,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Professional inadequacy.

Article R6152-80

…oncerned will be given access to his file two months before his appearance before the committee. He may be assisted by one or more experts of his choice and may call witnesses.The administration may a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Cooperation and exchanges of information between authorities

Article L631-1

…financiers shall cooperate with each other. They shall provide each other with any information that may be useful for the performance of their respective duties.The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seizure for counterfeiting

Article L332-1

Any author of a work protected by Book I of this Part, his successors in title or his assigns may bring an infringement action. To this end, such persons shall be entitled to have any bailiffs, where…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 167

…est, to the parties' lawyers or to the parties if they are not assisted by a lawyer.The submissions may also be served by registered letter or, if the person is detained, by the head of the prison who…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to all financing bodies

Article L214-172

…fer of the said receivables. However, at any time, all or part of the recovery of these receivables may be carried out directly by the management company in its capacity as legal representative of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to the use of a liability management structure

Article L311-48

…d no longer enables it to meet its commitments in respect of the trust assets transferred to it, it may : 1° Enjoin the beneficiary-trustee concerned to submit to it, within a period which it shall de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XII: Applications for relief from prohibitions, disqualifications, incapacities or publication measures

Article 702-1

…ure from a criminal conviction or pronounced in the judgment of conviction as an additional penalty may apply to the court that pronounced the conviction or, in the event of multiple convictions, to t…

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