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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Authorisation and renewal

Article D1173-5

A joint order by the ministers for health and sport specifies the content of applications for authorisation and renewal.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D1221-57

A plasma paste is any intermediate product resulting from the fractionation of plasma, whatever its level of processing, which cannot be used as it is for administration to humans, and which is intend…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D1221-56

This section applies to plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products. It also applies to labile blood products for direct therapeutic use included on the lis…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Artificial baths

Article D1332-52

The sanitary facilities are located close to the artificial bathing area and beaches and are clearly signposted for bathers and non-bather companions. The type and minimum number of sanitary facilitie…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Transparency, restrictive competition practices and other prohibited practices.

Article D440-5

The review boards set up within the Trade Practices Review Commission are chaired by a magistrate and include an equal number of representatives of producers and distributors.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Prevention of business difficulties.

Article D612-5

The amount referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 612-4 is set at €153,000.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Article D1411-5

The local deliberative assembly sets the conditions for submitting lists.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE TITLE

Article D1711-5

The functions of rapporteur of the local committee are carried out by the secretary general of the prefecture or his deputy.The secretariat of the local committee is provided by the services of the pr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article D2224-52

The conceding authority may ask the natural gas distribution body to provide it with any economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical information necessary for the exercise of the control…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2342-5

Expenditure may only be paid from the appropriations allocated to each of them; these appropriations may not be used by the mayor for other expenditure.

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