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Showing 85718580 of 9169 articles for Art. CE 24-11-2014 n° 352402

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-25

…1 must be accompanied by a dossier containing the following information and documents, updated as necessary, presented in accordance with the order referred to in Article R. 5121-11: 1° Chemical, phar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Biomedicine

Article L1418-1

The Agence de la biomédecine is a public administrative establishment under the supervision of the Minister for Health.It is responsible for transplants, reproduction, embryology and human genetics. I…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: STAY DOCUMENTS

Article L411-4

The multi-annual residence permit is valid for four years, except when it is issued: 1° To the foreign national mentioned in article L. 421-22 ; in this case, its duration is equal to that remaining o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-38-1

…the provisions of Articles L. 131-16 and L. 131-16-1, La Française des Jeux implements automated processing of personal data relating to bettors and bets placed on sports bets that it organises on the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Suspension, withdrawal from the lists and prohibition on inclusion on the lists

Article R221-15

…cision of the Minister for Sport: 1° At the proposal of the relevant federation, when the person concerned has been the subject of a serious disciplinary sanction taken in accordance with the provisio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Digital health space, shared medical file and pharmaceutical file

Article L1111-15

In compliance with the ethical rules applicable to them as well as articles L. 1110-4, L. 1470-5 and L. 1111-2, each healthcare professional, regardless of how or where they practice, must enter into…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: The obligation to insure.

Article L251-1

As stated in article L. 1142-2 of the French Public Health Code, reproduced below: "Art. L. 1142-2-Health professionals practising on a self-employed basis, the health establishments, health services…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter 3: Cafés and public houses

Article L313-1

…1 of the Public Health Code and articles L. 3335-3 and L. 3335-4 of the same code, which are reproduced below: "Art. L. 3335-3 of the Public Health Code. In municipalities with fewer than 2,000 inhabi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Declaration of receipts from cinemas

Article D212-88

…ic entertainment establishments draw up a revenue declaration form based on a model approved by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image) or…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-61

…concluded between the French executive production company and the production company whose head office is located outside France. If it is drawn up in a language other than French or English, the orig…

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