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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R1243-22

The authorised establishment or body sends the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine, as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-13-4

I. - Any public authority that owns land located within the close protection perimeters of water extraction points intended for human consumption and that intends to prescribe land use methods to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-13-1

The declaration of the public interest in the abstraction of water for human consumption referred to in article L. 1321-2 is published in the departmental registry of administrative acts and is displa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Prohibitions

Article R1333-4

Pursuant to 1° of Article L. 1333-2, exemptions to the prohibitions set out in R. 1333-2 and R. 1333-3 may be granted by order of the Minister for Health and, depending on the case, the Minister for C…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Healthcare waste produced by patients undergoing self-treatment and users of self-tests

Article R1335-8-5

I.-Pharmacies are required to collect, free of charge, the waste mentioned in 3° of article R. 1335-8-1. Pharmacies for internal use and medical biology laboratories wishing to collect this waste free…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Adoption, revision and evaluation of the national health strategy

Article R1411-4

I.-The national health strategy and the national plans and programmes mentioned in I of article R. 1411-2 will be monitored annually and evaluated over several years to assess the health results obtai…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Business secrecy.

Article R463-15

Where the rapporteur considers that one or more documents in their confidential version are necessary for the exercise of the rights of defence of one or more parties or that they must be made aware o…

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

Article D49-11

Applications by the sentenced person for the imposition or modification of one of the measures covered by the provisions of Article 712-4 shall be the subject of a written request addressed to the sen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing

Article R561-62

Where the president of the court orders a company or legal entity to make or have made declarations or rectifications of information relating to the beneficial owner, he shall make an order setting th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article R621-39-2

A respondent who wishes to challenge a member of the Committee must, on pain of inadmissibility, make the request:1° In the case of the rapporteur, within one month of notification of the decision app…

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