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Showing 83618370 of 11432 articles for Art. CE 17-10-1990 n° 56991

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Information.

Article L4132-18

…le to councillors who so wish by secure electronic means; this availability is the subject of a notice sent to each of these councillors under the conditions set out in the first paragraph. Without pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1b: General provisions relating to the hosting of personal health data

Article R1111-8-8

…nd medico-social monitoring activities: 1° On behalf of natural or legal persons responsible for processing within the meaning of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, who are responsible for producing or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Undercover procedures, sound recordings and images of certain places or vehicles

Article D15-1-5

…odies, referred to in Article 706-95-17, that may carry out operations to install the technical devices referred to in l'article 706-96 sont :the national directorate of the judicial police and its zo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R1245-3

…8 February 2006 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation of the company.

Article R743-73

The liquidator is appointed in accordance with the Articles of Association, except in the two cases provided for in Article R. 743-72, and in the cases provided for in Article R. 743-74. Failing this,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article R2335-16

…icipality's land territory included in the heart of the national park on 1st January of the year preceding the year of allocation; 3° Membership of the national park charter is assessed on 1 January o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial assistance provided by the agency on its own behalf

Article R515-9

…of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for Overseas France, in States that are members of regional cooperation agreements mentioned in articles L. 3441-2 to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 9: Communication to the Agency of information covered by medical or industrial secrecy

Article R1413-35

…means which guarantee its confidentiality. When the above-mentioned information is sent to the Agence nationale de santé publique in a sealed envelope, it is sent in a double envelope, the inner enve…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Health-related products

Article R1453-7

The authority responsible for the single public website shall take the necessary technical measures to ensure the integrity of the site on which it publishes the information mentioned in article R. 14…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Meetings of the departmental commercial development commission

Article R752-19

…to the authority competent to issue planning permission, either by administrative means against a receipt, or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or, in the case provided for in Arti…

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