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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Recording of sums calculated on the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-50

The sums calculated, capped where applicable for works belonging to the audiovisual adaptation of a live performance genre, are not actually entered on the automatic audiovisual production account unl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Recording of offences

Article R1312-5

…lowing oath before the judicial court within whose jurisdiction their administrative residence is located:"I swear and promise to perform my duties faithfully and well and to observe in everything the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial regime (R)

Article R2221-50

…ctor providing full information on the activity of the régie during the last financial year and indicating the measures that should be taken to: 1° Lowering cost prices; 2° Increasing productivity; 3°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4221-5

…c Area are also entitled to practise the profession of pharmacist if they hold the following qualifications 1° Evidence of formal qualifications as a pharmacist issued by a Member State or a State whi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Filing and registration of the declaration

Article R6351-5

…of attribution of the SIREN number; 2° Bulletin no. 3 of the criminal record of the director in the case of legal entities, or of the declarant in the case of natural persons; 3° A copy of the first v…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Commission de conciliation et d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales.

Article R1142-5

…commission comprises : 1° Three user representatives proposed by associations of users of the healthcare system which have been approved at regional level under the conditions laid down in article L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Machinery

Article R4311-5

…° Products which, although meeting the definition of machinery, are subject, exclusively and specifically, to the provisions arising from the transposition, outside the Labour Code, of European direct…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

…s in the event of failure to comply with the following obligations: 1° The obligation, for the applicant for a marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product intended for a limited market,…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Life mortgage

Article L341-54

…the right to interest in the proportion determined by the judge, with particular regard to the harm caused to the borrower.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: National Consumer Institute

Article R822-5

…e duration of the term of office of its members, a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman, the latter automatically replacing the absent or impeded Chairman. The age limit applicable to the Chairman is set at s…

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