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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Traditional herbal medicinal products

Article R5121-107-10

The Director General of the Agency may automatically vary, suspend or cancel a registration in the same cases and according to the same procedures as those laid down for a marketing authorisation in A…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Penalties

Article R6114-9

If the contract holder is found to be in serious breach of its contractual obligations, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency will send it a reasoned formal notice to take the necessary c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave

Article R6152-363

…ed up to a total of five years. A contractual practitioner placed on long-term leave is entitled to maintain all of the emoluments mentioned in 1° of article R. 6152-355 for three years and half for t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Moral rights

Article L121-3

In the event of notorious abuse in the use or non-use of the right of disclosure on the part of the deceased author's representatives referred to in Article L. 121-2, the court may order any appropria…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article L122-9

In the event of notorious abuse in the use or non-use of the exploitation rights on the part of the deceased author's representatives referred to in Article L. 121-2, the court may order any appropria…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Trusteeship charges

Article 397

The family council rules on impediments, withdrawals and replacements that concern the tutor and subrogated tutor. The guardianship judge rules on those that concern the other members of the family co…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Trusteeship charges

Article 396

Any tutelary office may be withdrawn because of the unfitness, negligence, misconduct or fraud of the person to whom it has been entrusted. The same applies where a dispute or conflict of interests pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-4-5

If the victim is confronted with a person in police custody, they may also ask to be assisted by a lawyer chosen by them or by their legal representative if they are a minor or, at their request, appo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The decision on the civil action

Article 375

The court orders the offender to pay the civil party the sum it determines, in respect of costs not paid by the State and incurred by the latter. The parties may produce evidence of the sums they clai…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Division of powers between professional leagues and federations

Article R132-9

The relationship between the federation and the professional league is laid down in an agreement which specifies the division of their powers and the conditions under which the federation and the leag…

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