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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6145-79

…on referred to in article R. 6145-77, an agreement is signed between the university hospital centre and its subsidiary. This agreement specifies in particular: 1° The contributions of any kind made by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6145-75

…may create subsidiaries whose corporate purpose falls within the scope defined by article L. 6145-7 and concerns: 1° Abroad, training, audit, consultancy and participation in the management of health…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6223-70

…The purpose of medical biologists' cooperative societies is to operate a medical biology laboratory and to facilitate the practice of the profession of medical biologist by its members by pooling the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article D641-8-1

The amount of turnover referred to in III of Article L. 812-2 is defined in accordance with the provisions of the sixth paragraph of Article D. 123-200. It is assessed on the closing date of the last…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Territorial jurisdiction of fire and rescue services in Corsica

Article L1424-77

The territorial fire and rescue services in Corsica are the Corse-du-Sud fire and rescue service and the Haute-Corse fire and rescue service. They carry out their missions within their respective geog…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-7

Customs officers may only immobilise means of transport and goods or keep persons at their disposal for the time strictly necessary to carry out the physical inspection operations, which include check…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: The national plant variety authority

Article D412-7

The person in charge of missions falling within the remit of the national plant variety authority is required to maintain secrecy on everything that has come to his knowledge in the performance of his…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Conditions of application to the overseas regions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 73 of the Constitution

Article LO4435-7

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Transfer of the registered office.

Article R229-7

…ng shares of the same class must be identical. This offer shall include the price offered per share and the proposed method of payment, as well as the period during which the offer is maintained and t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences

Article R1412-7

…tion is made up of eight members chosen from the categories defined in 5° of I of article L. 1412-2 and four members chosen from the categories defined in 2°, 3°, 4° and 6° of I of the same article. T…

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