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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-11

A panel of experts appointed by the Office will carry out any investigations required to examine the claim, in accordance with the adversarial principle. If necessary, it will commission an expert opi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 7

Public prosecution of crimes shall be barred after twenty years have elapsed from the day on which the offence was committed.Public prosecution of the crimes mentioned in Articles 706-16,706-26and 706…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 148-7

When the person under investigation, the accused or the defendant is detained, the application for release may also be made by means of a declaration to the head of the penitentiary establishment. Thi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Modification, suspension, withdrawal and non-renewal of early access authorisation

Article R5121-72

I.-At the request of the holder of the exploitation rights, the Haute Autorité de santé may modify any early access authorisation mentioned in article L. 5121-12 or the therapeutic use and data collec…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-7

In its notification to the company concerned, the AIF or its management company shall ask the company's board of directors or its equivalent to forward without delay to the employees' representatives…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Contracts for the provision of medical care

Article L242-44

Penalties for offences relating to estimates and the cooling-off period for cosmetic surgery are laid down by the provisions of the chapitre IV du titre II du livre III de la sixième partie du code de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 729

Conditional release aims to reintegrate convicts and prevent re-offending.Conditional release may be granted to convicts who have to serve one or more custodial sentences if they demonstrate serious e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-11-1

In order to promote their recovery, rehabilitation or social reintegration or if external measures are necessary, persons undergoing psychiatric care in application of Chapters II and III of this Titl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-117-1

I.- For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply 1° "Preventive treatment": any individual or collective prophylactic treatment applied to healthy animals exposed to a risk…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Ongoing evaluation of the criteria for granting early access authorisation and transmission of new data

Article R5121-71-1

The holder of the marketing rights for the medicinal product which is the subject of the early access authorisation or, where applicable, his authorised representative, shall immediately forward to th…

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