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Showing 20112020 of 57889 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 12-DCC-13 du 1 Feb 2012

French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: The single body responsible for business formalities

Article R123-13

…the National Register of Companies and, where applicable, documents relating to authorisation procedures, are kept for the periods necessary for the transmission provided for in Article R. 123-7.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Pledging of securities accounts and securities

Article D211-13

…n process in writing to realise the pledge in accordance with the conditions set out in article D. 211-12. The account keeper or manager of the computerised identification process executes the instruc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-131

…ctor General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail will notify the applicant of his decision within one hundred and twenty days from the dat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article R2511-13

Housing applications are submitted, in duplicate against receipt, to a borough town hall or to the town hall of the commune. Within one month of the application being lodged, the arrondissement mayor…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: National cosmetovigilance system

Article R5131-13

…de la Concurrence et de la Répression des Fraudes communicates to the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des Produits de Santé the declarations of serious undesirable effects brought to it…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Common provisions

Article L1453-13

…he terms and conditions for the application of sections 3 and 4 of this chapter, and in particular: 1° The definition of the health services referred to in article L. 1453-5 ; 2° The content of the ag…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-135

The entries relating to the decisions referred to in Article R. 123-122 when:1° Safeguard proceedings have been terminated pursuant to Article L. 622-12 ;2° Reorganisation proceedings have been termin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Evaluation, accreditation and analysis of hospital activity.

Article L6113-13

An agreement is signed between the public entity mentioned in the last paragraph of article L. 6113-11 and each health care organisation on the list mentioned in article L. 6113-12. If a health care o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Mobile emergency and resuscitation unit

Article D6124-13

…least one doctor, one nurse and one driver or pilot. The driver fulfils the conditions laid down in 1° of article R. 6312-7. The emergency medical service regulating doctor adapts the composition of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for authorising laboratories

Article R1131-13

The analyses mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article R. 1131-2 may only be performed in the medical biology laboratories of public health establishments, the laboratories of cancer centres, the medical biol…

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