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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating conditions

Article L6213-2

…ears over the last ten years. For people who began practising medical biology between 13 January 2008 and 13 January 2010, the two-year period taken into account ends on 13 January 2012 at the latest.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Artificial baths

Article D1332-49

…sh water supply is defined so as to comply with the quality limits mentioned in article D. 1332-47; 8° Biofilm and algae growing on the edges and in the artificial bathing area are removed mechanicall…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Contracts awarded without advertising or competitive tendering on account of their value or subject-matter

Article R2122-3

The purchaser may award a contract without prior advertising or competitive tendering where the works, supplies or services can only be provided by a specific economic operator, for one of the followi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-45

The Autorité des marchés financiers may, at the request of the European Securities and Markets Authority:1° Prohibit the marketing, in the European Union, of units or shares of AIFs managed by manager…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Elements of private project management for infrastructure works

Article R2431-30

The execution studies enable the work to be carried out. Their purpose, for the work as a whole or for the public contracts concerned alone, is to:1° To draw up the functional diagrams and technical a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article R111-4-2

Manufacturers and importers of portable computers with the exception of tablet computers, slate computers and so-called mobile thin client computers, shall ensure: 1° From the date of placing the firs…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to pharmaceutical companies, organisations and establishments

Article R5124-48-1

Marketing authorisation holders and pharmaceutical companies and organisations exploiting or distributing a medicinal product in France ensure, within the limits of their respective responsibilities,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation procedures.

Article R5141-34

…cal and scientific progress under the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2008 of 28 November 2008 concerning the examination of variations to the terms of a marketing authorisa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Negotiable debt securities

Article L213-3

…y Article 1 of Ordinance no. 96-50 of 24 January 1996 relating to the reimbursement of social debt; 8. Local authorities and their groupings; 9. Associations governed by the law of 1st July 1901 relat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
1. Board of Directors.

Article R1142-46

…ublic procurement contracts and agreements for amounts in excess of a threshold that it determines; 8° Legal proceedings and settlements, with the exception of those resulting from the application of…

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