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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article L4433-9

Territorial coherence schemes and, in the absence of a territorial coherence scheme, local town planning plans, equivalent documents and local maps, as well as national park charters and regional natu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5461-2-1

Failure by the importer or distributor of a device to immediately inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, pursuant to Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/745…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5462-2-1

Failure by the importer or distributor of a device to immediately inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, pursuant to Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/746…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions of implementation

Article L6211-21

Subject to cooperation in the field of medical biology between health establishments within the framework of agreements, health cooperation groupings or regional hospital groupings and subject to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Information for guests.

Article R1112-1

The director of the institution shall ensure that all measures are taken to ensure that the information defined in article L. 1111-7 is communicated. Information relating to a person's health is commu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article R57-10

Home detention under electronic surveillance of persons under house arrest with electronic surveillance ordered by the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge and that of persons sentence…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Continuation of the business during the observation period.

Article R631-23

For the purposes of ordering the partial cessation of business pursuant to II of Article L. 631-15, the matter shall be referred to the court by petition or, where applicable, in the forms and accordi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to accountants (R)

Article D1617-21

The revenue transactions, the order transactions of the local authorities and establishments referred to in article D. 1617-19 as well as the payments of the organisations referred to in the second pa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Document retention periods

Article R2223-55-1

The prior declarations and supporting documents mentioned in articles R. 2213-2-2, R. 2213-5, R. 2213-7, R. 2213-8, R. 2213-8-1, R. 2213-10, R. 2213-13, R. 2213-14, R. 2213-21 and R. 2213-28 are kept…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the various enforcement courts

Article D49-15

The sentenced person shall be informed ten days before the date of the adversarial hearing provided for in articles 712-6,712-7 and 712-8 by registered letter if he or she is not imprisoned and by the…

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