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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Cancer Institute

Article D1415-1-7

…f 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management, with the exception of Articles 220 to 228. The accounting officer is appointed by an order of the Minister in charge of the budget, aft…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Planning and sustainable development

Article R4424-7-1

…rt of an integrated procedure for housing or an integrated procedure for business property pursuant to Article L. 300-6-1 du code de l'urbanisme, l'examen conjoint prévu à l'article L. 4424-15-1 takes…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article R221-7-1

The report referred to in Article L. 221-7-1 shall be made available to the public on the company's website within eight months of the end of the financial year and for a period of five years.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European Investigation Order by the French judicial authorities

Article D47-1-7

…onditions of detention in the issuing or executing State, and the time limits by which he or she is to be transferred from and returned to the territory of the executing State shall be determined by m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Conditions specific to the modality: "systemic drug treatments for cancer".

Article D6124-134-7

The authorised establishment must : 1° Comply with the medication circuit and take into account the criteria in the certification manual for healthcare establishments; 2° Formalise the steps involved…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable to personal injury offences resulting from deliberate intoxication

Article 706-139-2

Where, pursuant to Article 351 of this Code, the question of the application of the first paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Criminal Code in relation to an accused charged with murder, assassination,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L2334-7-1

In order to finance the increase in the flat-rate allocation mentioned in the first paragraph of III of article L. 2334-7, the inter-municipality allocation mentioned in the first paragraph of article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2a: Physician or pharmacist assigned to a medical biology laboratory under the authority of the Minister of Defence

Article R6213-7-1

…6213-2 who do not meet the conditions laid down in Article L. 6213-1 or in 1° of Article L. 6213-2 to practise as medical biologists. 6213-2 who do not meet the conditions laid down in Article L. 621…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: International trade marks and European Union trade marks

Article R*717-1-1

Article R. * 712-23-2 shall apply to the international trademark registrations referred to in Article R. 717-1, within the same limit and subject to the same reservation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Bodies

Article L5212-7-1

…committee and the size of their population. Any request is sent, without delay, by the public body to all the municipalities concerned. From the date of transmission, each municipal council has three…

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