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Showing 18011810 of 27949 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 12-DCC-83 du 13 Jun 2012

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-136

…ctor General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail where it appears : 1° That there is one or more immunological veterinary medicinal produc…

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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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-13

For the application of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted in New York on 20 December 2006, may be prosecuted and tried under the condit…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Procedure for authorising the importation of human body parts or products mentioned in Article R. 1245-1, for the personal use of one or more recipients, as provided for in the second paragraph of II of Article L. 1245-5.

Article R1245-13

…f II of Article L. 1245-5 shall be sent to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, by any means enabling its receipt to be dated, by an establi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Voting and electoral operations.

Article R723-13

…f voters. At the close of the ballot, the secretary of the committee provided for in Article L. 723-13 shall write "postal vote" opposite the name of each voter on the voters' list. The chairman of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Powers (R)

Article R1425-13

…service to issue an opinion on all or part of the draft agreements provided for in articles L. 1424-13, L. 1424-14 and L. 1424-17.The parties to the draft agreement have a period of one month from rec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Time limits and forms of appeal

Article 380-13

Where the appellant is a prisoner, the appeal may be made by means of a declaration to the head of the prison. This declaration shall be recorded, dated and signed by the head of the penal establishme…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions relating to non-pre-packaged foodstuffs

Article R412-13

The information mentioned in article R. 412-12 is indicated on or near the foodstuff itself in such a way that there is no uncertainty as to the foodstuff to which it relates when the latter is : 1° P…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Supporting documents and other evidence relating to the conditions for participation

Article R2343-12

The provisions of article R. 2143-12 apply.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation

Article R6322-12

…al of the Regional Health Agency on the grounds and under the conditions defined by Article L. 6122-13 . They shall state the reasons on which they are based. They are notified and published in accord…

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