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Showing 92719280 of 10201 articles for Art. CE 29-9-1989 n° 68212

French Public Health CodeIn force
2. Steering Committee

Article R1142-47

…1142-24-13, L. 3111-9 and L. 3122-1 is chaired by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Office. In addition to its chairman, the Steering Committee includes : 1° A representative of the Direct…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Administrative police measures

Article R612-34

…g one of the measures provided for in Articles L. 612-30 to L. 612-34, it will inform the person concerned of the measures envisaged and the reasons it considers likely to justify such measures.2° Whe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation of work

Article D1432-37

…entative of associations working to combat insecurity;14° One representative of the Caisse d'Assurance Retraite et de la Santé au Travail (Occupational Health and Pensions Insurance Fund) or equivalen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health surveillance, safety and policing

Article R1435-2

…director general of the regional health agency draw up a protocol relating to the actions and services implemented by the agency on behalf of the departmental prefect. II - The departmental protocol…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for registration on the list of statutory auditors

Article D822-7-1

Applicants for the preparatory certificate for the duties of statutory auditor, for the certificate of aptitude for the duties of statutory auditor, as well as for the aptitude test mentioned in artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Experimentation

Article R5121-15

…clinical trial investigators with : 1° The title and objective of the trial requested; 2° The pharmaceutical form, batch number(s) and expiry date of the investigational medicinal product; 3° For the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 12: Obligations to declare the transfer of medicinal products used in veterinary medicine

Article R5141-148

…1 declare, for transfers of veterinary medicinal products containing one or more antibiotic substances, the following data: 1° The number of the authorisation to open the transferring veterinary phar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Presentation and determination of the statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure

Article R6145-12

…jected income and expenditure. However, operating operations relating to each of the following services or activities are the subject of a separate forecast income statement: 1° Operation of the alloc…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 63

…e of the Union and its implementing regulations and with a view to investigating fraud, customs officers may access and visit any vessel in a port, in a roadstead or alongside a quay.II. - When the in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Ranking of claims

Article L643-8

I.-Without prejudice to the right of ownership or retention enforceable against the collective proceedings and the provisions of articles L. 622-17 and L. 641-13, the amount of distributable assets is…

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