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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Operating rules

Article D1411-45-12

The ministers responsible for health, health insurance, the elderly and the disabled, or their representatives, report once a year to the plenary session of the Conference on the action taken on its o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Terms of office for members of the urban community council

Article L5216-4-2

…to the president of a declaration, signed by their members, accompanied by a list of their members and their representative.Under the conditions it defines, the community council may assign to the gr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138-4

…es may only be replaced by equivalent safety features in order to verify the authenticity, identify and provide proof of unlawful handling of the medicinal product. This replacement is carried out wit…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Governance system

Article R354-2-4

Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings use external credit assessments for the calculation of prudential technical provisions and the Solvency Capital Requirement, they shall, as part of their r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions applicable before the Court of Cassation

Article R*49-33

The Cour de cassation is not obliged to refer to the Conseil constitutionnel a priority question of constitutionality challenging, on the same grounds, a legislative provision already before the Conse…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV bis: Procedure applicable to serial or unsolved crimes

Article 706-106-4

The public prosecutor may order an investigation or refer the matter to the investigating judge for the purpose of tracing the possible criminal career of a person convicted of offences under Article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Operating rules

Article D1411-45-10

…d mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 133-14 of the Code of relations between the public and the administration from receipt of the referral or request for opinion.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-9-4

…one of the actions mentioned in the first paragraph of this article is initiated in a third country and is based on one of the grounds mentioned in the same 1° to 5°, the marketing authorisation holde…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt

Article 495-15-1

…pursuant to Article 390-1. The referral to the court resulting from this summons to appear is null and void if the person accepts the proposed sentence or sentences and these are the subject of a hom…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Cancer Institute

Article D1415-1-4

The term of office for members of the Institute's Board of Directors and Scientific Council is five years, renewable, with the exception of Members of Parliament whose term of office expires with the…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
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