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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: General provisions relating to import and export.

Article R1235-3

Any import or export of organs, excluding transit, is subject to the following information being affixed to the package: 1° The words: "elements or products of human origin" ; 2° The designation of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Conditions for entry into or exit from national territory of biological samples

Article R1245-30

…hment, as well as any medical specialist or hospital department performing anatomo-cytopathology procedures, when these samples are used exclusively for diagnostic purposes or for quality control or e…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to the various companies.

Article R743-37

…clerk, a manager of a professional non-trading company or a legal representative of a liberal practice company in the process of being dissolved or by a liquidator of a dissolved company, of the right…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Solidarity grant for the equipment of local authorities and their groupings affected by climatic or geological events

Article R1613-3

For the purposes of article L. 1613-6, any localised event occurring in mainland France that causes damage to the property listed in Article R. 1613-4 and belonging to the local authorities or groupin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Registers of gametes, germinal tissue or embryos

Article R2142-33

…donor in the case of medically assisted procreation with recourse to a third-party donor;3° The place and dates of freezing of gametes or tissues;4° The dates and methods of use;5° Precise details of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Registers of gametes, germinal tissue or embryos

Article R2142-34

…ue European donation code or the anonymisation code of the gamete donor in the case of an embryo conceived with recourse to a third party donor ;2° The number of embryos kept for each couple or each u…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-38

…cal file indicates:1° For natural persons, their birth name, customary name, forenames, date and place of birth, the activity carried out and the address of the establishment or, failing this, the res…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Financial provisions

Article D5334-3

…epresentative, chairman; 2° The departmental or, where applicable, regional director of public finance or his representative; 3° (Deleted)4° The departmental director of equipment or his representativ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Coordinating doctors

Article R3711-3

…rs or have practised as a specialist for at least five years; 3° Have not been convicted of an offence contrary to honour, probity or accepted principles of morality that warrants entry in bulletin no…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Notification of the decision

Article R4126-33

The decisions of the Disciplinary Chamber of First Instance and the orders of its president are notified by the court registry to the practitioner being prosecuted and, where applicable, to his lawyer…

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