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Showing 33613370 of 35842 articles for Art. 473 · Cass. 1re civ. avis 6 December 2018 · Cass. 1re civ. 19 March 2014 · CA Paris 20 November 2014

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Taking samples.

Article R5121-62

Exceptionally, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, at the reasoned request of the marketing authorisation holder, authorise him to pres…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-20 B (art. A322-101)

…the groupNUMBERmaximumof the group, excludingguide0 -70 metres.Level P3 or P4 + Basic trimix qualification.Autonomy3Above 70 metres and up to 120 metres. Level P3 or P4 + Trimix qualification.Autonomy…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-20 A (art. A322-101)

…RSmaximumof the group, excludingsupervisor0 - 40 metres. Level P 3 or P 4 + confirmed nitrox qualification during mix training. E 3 + trimix qualification 4 Above 40 metres and up to 60 metres (*). Le…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cafés, public houses and pubs

Article D312-6

Within one month of receiving the complete application for classification, the body mentioned in article L. 141-2 will take the classification decision if the assessment body mentioned in article D. 3…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Classification.

Article D321-6

In the month following receipt of the complete application for classification, the body mentioned in Article L. 141-2 takes the decision to classify the property in the category for which the assessin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Setting up and closing down the social and economic committee

Article R2313-6

Disputes are referred to the judicial court by means of an application. At the request of the clerk's office, the regional director of companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment shall…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L432-6

…supervision of, on behalf of and in the name of the State, the guarantees provided for in article 119 of law no. 2005-1720 of 30 December 2005 on amending finance for 2005.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to certain offences against the rules governing public land transport services

Article 529-6

…the offender.However, the first paragraph does not apply if several offences, at least one of which cannot give rise to a transaction, have been recorded simultaneously.II. - The transaction is carrie…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation

Article D2323-6

…rs by the director general of the regional health agency for the region in which the lactarium is located, after obtaining the opinion of the director general of the Agence nationale de sécurité du mé…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial assistance

Article R5134-66

When, in application of the fifth paragraph of article L. 5134-19-4, the département increases the rates of reimbursement mentioned in article R. 5134-65, the cost of this increase is borne by the dép…

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