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

Article L1313-5

The agency is headed by a Director General appointed by decree. The Director General issues opinions and recommendations falling within the remit of the Agency and, on behalf of the State, takes decis…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Fixed installations

Article R312-14

The additional file in accordance with the order mentioned in article R. 312-9 is sent to the Prefect when the work is handed over. After consulting the departmental consultative committee on safety a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L2141-3

An embryo may only be conceived in vitro within the framework and in accordance with the objectives of medically assisted procreation as defined in Article L. 2141-1.Taking into account the state of m…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Conditions of practice.

Article L743-12-1

A natural person holding a commercial court registry may not employ more than two salaried commercial court registrars. A legal entity holding a commercial court registry may not employ a number of sa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and operation

Article R1423-50

Depending on the needs of the department, court registrars may be delegated to the departments of another industrial tribunal within the jurisdiction of the same court of appeal. This delegation is de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-56

The Minister for Research may at any time suspend or prohibit the pursuit of activities that no longer meet the requirements set out in Article L. 1243-3. When the organisation is a health establishme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body with a view to their transfer for scientific use

Article R1243-66

In the event of infringement of legislative and regulatory provisions or failure to comply with the requirements mentioned in the second paragraph of Article R. 1243-62, the authorisation may be suspe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article D527-4

The commission mentioned in article D. 527-3 is referred to by the Sentence Enforcement Court when it is required to rule on the granting of conditional release if it has not already been referred to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK I: Commerce in general.

Article Annexe 0

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL APPLICATIONS 1. Where the declarant is unable to produce one or more of the supporting documents provided for in the following annexes, he may apply to the judge r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Non-medical temporary accommodation benefit

Article R6111-51

The temporary non-medical accommodation service may be provided by the health care organisation or may be delegated to a third party under an agreement. The delegated third party, chosen by the health…

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