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Showing 85718580 of 11860 articles for Art. CA Paris – 9 Jan. 2019 – no. 18/09522

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Control consultation and other common provisions

Article R2212-16

Only doctors, midwives, family planning or education centres and health centres that have signed the agreement referred to in article R. 2212-9 may obtain the medicines required to carry out a volunta…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Working conditions of the pharmacists or veterinary surgeons responsible and delegated.

Article R5142-21

…6 are entered on the register of section B or section E of the national order of pharmacists in the case of establishments referred to in 1°, 2°, 3°, 11° and 12° of article R. 5142-1 and on the regist…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Arrest and surrender

Article 627-14

A person who has been provisionally arrested under the conditions provided for in Article 92 of the Statute may, if he or she consents, be surrendered to the International Criminal Court before the co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for the issue of negotiable debt securities.

Article D213-3

…agency that meets the conditions laid down by the competent administrative authority or, where applicable, have a guarantor that meets the conditions laid down by order and has such a rating. The foll…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Honorary office, court robes and oath.

Article R814-50

…a receivership trustee, company receivership trustee and liquidator, sequestration trustee with the Paris judicial court, court-appointed administrator, or court-appointed agent will be taken into acc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Acquisitions of participating interests

Article L465-4

The penalties applicable to breaches of the obligation to disclose significant shareholdings are set out in 1° and 2° of I and III of article L. 247-1 and in article L. 247-2 of the French Commercial…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article L775-3

…e shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Work permit categories and authorised professional activities

Article R5221-2

…cles…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138

…ndable and indelible: 1° The name of the medicinal product or product, the strength, the pharmaceutical form and, where appropriate, a reference to the recipient ("infants", "children" or "adults"), a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quinquies GE

The allocations to the capitalisation reserve recognised as expenses for accounting purposes and their reversals which the persons mentioned in 1° to 6° and 9° to 11° of B of I of Article L. 612-2 of…

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