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Showing 23812390 of 27955 articles for Art. CAA Douai 4-12-2019 n° 18DA00417

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2224-12-2-1

No charges related to payment rejection may be levied by drinking water and wastewater services on natural persons not acting for business purposes who have obtained, for the bill that generated payme…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2224-12-3-1

Public water and sanitation utilities may allocate a grant to the housing solidarity fund to help finance aid relating to the payment of water supplies or related collective charges mentioned in artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-12-1-1

Prescribers may make the dispensing of certain medicines conditional on the performance and results of medical tests, in particular biological or diagnostic tests, by means of a prescription known as…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Tax officials entrusted with certain judicial police duties

Article R15-33-29-12

The Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal shall order the withdrawal or suspension, for a period not exceeding two years, of the authorisation to carry out judicial police missions, by order…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-12-1

In the cases provided for by 6° of Article 706-53-2, the person must be informed and provided with the document provided for by Article R. 53-8-9 are made, under the conditions set out in the third an…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-12

The AIF or its management company:1° Requests and ensures that the board of directors of the company concerned or its equivalent makes available to the representatives of the employees, or failing tha…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-9-1

Veterinary medicinal products for which the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail has restricted the conditions of supply t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-10-1

When the parallel import application concerns a proprietary veterinary medicinal product which has already been the subject of a parallel import authorisation, and the proprietary veterinary medicinal…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-44

I.-Production programme grants are awarded on the basis of: 1° A quantitative analysis of production activity, based on the following criteria: a) The work carried out to ensure the best possible comm…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation to report and declare.

Article R1221-49-4

I. - Any healthcare professional who observes or is aware of post-donation information shall report it without delay to the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent of the blood establishme…

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